You honestly sound like your stressed out and in fight/flight mode. The first step is just acknowledging where you are mentally and how it's going to make everything seem worse than it really is.
Yes. The important detail is that it remounts the path once the path gets called. So I setup a cron job to "ls" the path every few minutes to make sure it's always remounted quickly.
If you trust your boss enough, I recommend having an honest conversation about the diagnosis and it's implications. Keep in mind ADHD is not all downsides. It really comes down to understanding your strengths and weaknesses. Then making a plan to maximize the strength and compensate for the weakness. Again, if you trust your boss enough to want to help you grow this is probably the best path. Heck, you may not be doing as badly as YOU think you are doing.
I think 2 good concepts come to mind to help you make choices:
Least privilege - Only give things/people just enough access/authority to get the job done. A good example is sonarr doesn't need access to your personal photos to do it's job, so don't give it access if to them.
Defense in layers - Nothing is perfect and you can make mistakes in configuration. Don't rely on a single point of failure to protect you. If you want remote access use a VPN. But also take steps in your network like putting a password on the logins.
Congratulations on making that observation. I know I frequently have problems because I'm just oblivious to my own mental state. I'm to busy with what I am doing that I don't pay attention to what I am doing. So good job noticing. The best suggestion I have I to make time to observe the emotion. Next time it happens to make a few minutes of time to just experience and think about that feeling.
If it still has working USB you can hook it up to a $10 raspberry pi with wifi to act as a print server. I can understand if that's a more ambitious tech project than your ready to take on.
You can get used Enterprise drives on eBay if you want to got that way. Look for a seller with lots of sales, a good rating, and a reasonable return policy.
I would stay away from kubernets/k3/k8s. Unless you want to learn it for work purposes, it's so overkill you can spend a month before you get things running. I know from experience. My current setup gives you options and has been reliable for me.
NAS Box: Truenas Scale - You can have UnRaid fill this role.
Services Hosting: Proxmox - I can spin up any VMs I need and lots of info online to do things like hardware passthrough to VMs.
Containers: Debian VM - Debian makes a great server environment as it's stable and well supported. I just make this VM a docker swarm host. I managed things with Portainer for a web interface.
I keep data on the NAS and have containers access it over the network. Usually a NFS share.
I found passive activitys can help with that. Just sit down and watch a good show that is engaging. Even going to bed early but listening to an audio book or podcast.
That feels like a far assessment. Makes me think that he grabbed the tigger by the tail with his career and is afraid to let go.