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Heh, Dumpster, I came into this topic to proudly say I'm currently traveling to the states for an interview. It took me 4 years to get back to this chance of an engineering job in the states, where I worked my way through a number of odd jobs, from dishwashing and cooking to chip manufacturing, to math tutoring, to getting an inventory collector position with the government to now interviewing for a software development position.

I know exactly how you feel about job hunting. I gave up from a long time ago on applying for things online. I can't win. There's too much competition and I'm not a professional person. I can't survive in the corporate world. So I play to my strengths and try to get as personal as possible. But that barely worked, only once when I hounded the chip design company to high hell, calling them and going up to the company place directly to give them my resume. Didn't last more than a couple months there anyways. After that, it was pure luck. My last few job acquisitions boiled down to who I knew. And this interview coming up is because of a friend of mine and I proved to him I could do the job because incidentally, I've done that kind of work at an internship before.

I wish I could share some of the luck I have with you man. All I can say is that you can't do it alone, find people to talk to and to work with. Even if it's free. I did this for a year at a lab, and truth be told, it did give me opportunities, just not ones I was willing to take on.
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