[sasas]

I know someone who was in a very similar situation and was getting turned down month after month. He made the decision focus on more enterprise technologies (.NET) and invested time in learning and building things with C#. Eventually things worked out.

You mention experience with Java - Maybe going the J2EE route could open some opportunities.

Some may say going down the more traditional enterprise stack is boring but I do wonder if that's where there is more work locally as opposed to work being sent offshore to a low cost dev shop that works with web /php / etc.

Of course I may well be wrong, but it's one perspective.

[nrjdhsbsid]

At least in my experience the vast majority of coding jobs are not sexy. I did consulting for a while and maybe 5% of the projects were interesting.

Most of what we did was automate annoying manual processes, which writing the code for was usually annoying in itself