i put my dick in the ground

beats $0 an hour, keep doing it and keep your eye out for something better and throw yourself into learning your craft so that when something better comes along you're qualified for it

theres only so much learning you can do when you dont have a job in your field (i work home networking support, but its hardly the same thing as experience with managing hundreds of users, which I would have been doing at this place)

[maks]

theres only so much learning you can do when you dont have a job in your field (i work home networking support, but its hardly the same thing as experience with managing hundreds of users, which I would have been doing at this place)

microsoft offers trial copies of almost all of its enterprise software suites, including its server OS's, and you have a machine which I assume is capable of running virtualbox so you really already have everything you need. I got my current job because at the interview I could tell them about the datacenter in my bedroom I built for fun

Also more jobs in that where I am, lots of creative firms in my city