Networking
I love my job. I'm working at a bank right now and I have the rare oppertunity of meeting a variety of business owners, in all fields. Small business owners are my favorite because it's like a candy shop. They present so many oppertunities and are very trusting of you.
Today I met one of the owners of Inventoractive, a company that develops promotional video games for other businesses. They work with mostly C++ but I talked to him and probably managed to get him into the Flash platform for internet games as well. That being said, I might be able to get my hand into this honey pot. It's really exciting. The company looks very promising. Plus, I'm guessing some of the employees worked for Tiburon, the local EA studio, so if I can get in their good graces they can probably help me get into that studio and work my way from there. It's very presumptuous of me I know but the oppertunity is present and I'm going to work hard to follow it to fuition.
Also, if any of you guys have a website development job and/or small business let me know and I can definetly get you some referrals. It'll be mutually beneficial seeing as some of these small businesses have promise, just a lack of resources.