system
A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
this.  
Even a year can be difficult to do.  And what's even more unfair is employers look down on any long or semi long period of unemployment.  


It's a rigged hiring process full of judgmental folks that forget people are human and I hate it.
gpt
Just fill in those gaps with "self employeed work."  If you want to go the extra mile, file the actual DBA with the state and set up a virtual voicemail with google voice or something similar.

They hardly ever check and it's none of their business anyways.