Ask HN: How to lead a stable, happy career as a bad interviewee?

Most of my acquaintances and friends have, in their careers, mostly staying in one place and focusing on their personal lives and families. How do I get into a stable career track like this? And not through these distractions of job searches and interviews. Their budgeting challenges are not related to being underemployed, and they seem to have their employment on auto-pilot. I'd be happy if I can put away the need to job hunt for the rest of my life.

The more time I spend looking for jobs and practicing interviews, the more I see them as a distraction, because I don't see them paying off. A distraction from my progress in my finances, career and my life. I want to free myself from that so that I can focus on building my own life, get into a relationship and starting a family. Therefore I do not want to focus on getting better at interviewing anymore.

For context I am a self-taught SWE having done numerous jobs in a professional capacity (90% in web, 10% other). I am frequently required to look for work because the only offers I can get for now are low-ball temp contract jobs.

If I completely avoid applying for these temp contract jobs I would never be hired (since no full-time offers come around). That's why I keep applying to them even though they're not my best option, because I have no choice but to take the money.