GWb said there are more jobs now than EVER before! He has created all these great minimum wage positions so that the skilled people who's jobs were outsourced can still pay taxes and work for a living.
On a less sarcastic note (sorry just dropped in from a political discussion)I have always be taught to never have ONE career or ONE focus. Sorry, I know you are somewhat pissed that you have worked hard and now have nothing to do, but one thing I have learned is you never expect you training to carry your career. I have two trades certs and an IT cert, I work in neither field that directly uses my training, but found my experience got me doing what I wanted to do, my own thing.
Don't sell yourself short, keep hammering, don't look in the paper or recruiting ads for positions, they are inundated. select who YOU WANT TO WORK FOR call them, probe the organization and find out WHO is in charge, not HR but the BOSS. get him on the phone even if it takes a week of callbacks, state who you are and offer RELEVANT achivements and goals that you can help them obtain by hiring you, force your way in for an interview WITH THE BOSS NOT HR, and sell yourself and your objective just as ANY salesman would have to work his way in to state his case.
I used to be a motivational speaker for a job club designed for youths who had left school for whatever reason and couldn't get an interview. Within 2 weeks 98% would be hired in a fulltime position OF THIER CHOICE. The others would seek school or training.
Granted I live in a country with lots of work and they are screaming to fill IT positions here, but this has NEVER failed me nor anyone else focused enough to go for it.
