I'm in the UK

Honestly, that's rough . Hope you can find a safer country.

an electrical engineer will hardly go hungry anywhere in the world

I genuinely couldn't find work in when I got my bachelors degree 🤷. And a bunch of my colleagues hit the same wall. But I'm definitely not doing myself any favors by being autistic 🙃. Industry simply does not want people like me. But fortunately, it's kind of a superpower in academia if one of your autistic special interests is math 😆