job hunt blahs

After the Amazon failure, I've been getting somewhat depressed about job hunting. No responses since then, and I'm starting to apply to less and less interesting listings. Pretty much given up any hope of finding something relevant to my Master's work. Part of the problem is that I continue to be somewhat ambivalent to continuing programming as a career. It's all I'm really qualified for, though. I keep thinking about education work, since I enjoyed TAing so much. But to get a real job there is pretty much going to require a whole new certification process. Which I'd be up for, but this is not the time.

Mostly I just dream of finding a job that lets me work with my hands, building wonderful things. What a weird idea, being able to look back at the end of the day at tangible results! I guess ideally it would be making props or working in a shop for a research group or something. I'm not without skills along those lines, I'd like to think, but I have absolutely no professional experience. If those jobs even exist around here, I have no idea how to get into them.

So, yeah. Blah.