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"Perhaps you should take some of those offers to build a resume and references. Your resume needs to show a track record of success on work relevant to the prospective employer."

That's what we're doing, along with a couple of ongoing home projects for holes in the market.

On the lighter side, with a tangent toward hardware, have you seen the releases from Intel about processors running at between 1 and 10 watts (even and x86)? Solar powered wireless points, here we come, and not as much need for routing pex tubing in slabs away from built-in passive cooling closets (except for the RAIDFrame arrays). ...distributed processing, even, without needing to run workstations on server AFS partitions (as yet, to keep workstations from using too much power).

I'm putting together a proposal right now that includes solar power as an option for locations that have no utilities available. The hardware will be based on a PIC nanowatt series microcontroller. The Zigbee 2.4 GHz transceiver will be the major power consumer.

My most recent x86_64 motherboard has lots of passive heat sinks and tubing. It looks like a roller coaster. A reduced power CPU would be welcome...especially for embedded work where power and cooling are an issue.