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by foo23 6368 days ago
This certainly isn't what you want to hear, but here is some raw feedback:

You need to seriously work on your personal pitch. It sounds like the projects you've been involved in haven't gotten off the ground, and it comes through that you don't really have valuable expertise that you bring to the table.

Either 1. become an expert at something 2. start coding or 3. get a job that most companies/startups have a need for:

- find an IT job at a startup, often these help out with engineering or writing internal applications

- Move into operations (i.e. setting up machines, systems, administering backend systems and applications) for a company that has a massive number of servers (like facebook, google, rackspace) or is in the process of scaling (twitter?, digg, etc).

Those two positions can be used as a springboard into dev jobs, but if you can get your projects to launch, you're going to learn far more from those experiences.