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>35 year old applies for coding job with 2 years of internship experience and 7 year gap in resume
Try getting a help desk job and then weasel your way into an ops role. I don't even think "Sysadmin" is even a role anymore so I think that route is dead. Just take the 40k entry level position and see if you can get some certs that the company pays for. If you're not fucking ugly as shit you could also try sales, but I imagine you're terrible with people and probably stink.