baggins

I'm using a new account because I'm not sure if I feel comfortable attaching this question to my name. I'm an entrepreneur at heart, but have been trying to find a junior design job so that I can improve my learning potential and get out of the home office.

The problem is that I'm having an impossible time finding a job.

I'm a competent designer, and HTML/CSS don't scare me, but these days that isn't good enough. You need to know javascript or jquery and ajax, HAML & SASS, and what seems like a dozen other technologies.

The same is true of development. It's not enough to know a language or two, but you need to be a rockstar programmer across the board.

I'm not complaining, but I'm having a rough time paying the bills and thought I would seek some advice on finding junior level work, whether contract or FT/PT.

I've had a few interviews with big and small companies, and though I felt some of them went well, I can understand why they didn't hire me.

So what do you do? Do you take jobs outside your skill level in the hopes that you can figure it out? Do I stalk Craigslist and Elance to bide my time until I can learn more? Do I keep looking for junior design jobs? Do they even exist?