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It's probably a combination of being in a rural area and not having any experience that's really getting you. Try applying in bigger cities, if anything comes up, then figure out how to relocate then. Usually a lot of companies will cover relocation expenses or will assist with temporary living until you find a place (I had my first job pay for a month or two of living in a hotel until I got an apartment).
Good luck and happy hunting!  
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Thanks for the advice. I will do just that.
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Best advice is don't get discouraged.... all it takes is one "yes" to make all those "no's" not matter. As your first job hardest thing is getting your foot in the door. I graduated from college during the dot com bust time and there were hardly any jobs (dot coms were falling left and right so there was a surplus of engineers and developers), so I started grad school in the mean time until I found something.
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Thanks, I'll try not to get discourage. After all, as you stated, there are lots of different possibilities. I'll put this in my mind now, in case I eventually feel that way. Thanks for the encouragement! It helps me!
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Start interviewing in big cities and plan to move to the big city where you get a job. Getting your first job is going to be the hardest, and you're making the problem worse by not being where most jobs are.
For software developers, a good cover letter and resume don't usually go very far; most people just scan it to see what skills and technologies you list. Instead of focusing too much on your resume, focus more on interviewing skills and job skills.
It sounds like you already have a good focus on your job skills; now, just try to land as many interviews as you can and focus on reading your interviewers and figuring out what kind of employees they want to hire; you'll eventually figure out how to sell yourself to them.
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Good ideas. I will look into improving my interviewing skills and job skills.
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It's got to be one of us lot: XKCD OTD[^] - Gliese 667C/e
Had to be one of us...
[edit]  Got the star name wrong...[/edit]
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modified 19-Aug-13 12:00pm.
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I vote for PILF. Too funny!
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I thought of posting a snarky comment about the naming of Gliese 667C/e, but I thought better of it.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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I blame Randall Munroe...his handwriting is difficult... 
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I don't see why any of us would want to name anything Pilf.
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Oh it was Mike.
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I don't see what's so wrong about naming the planet 'e' **ERROR: TABLE 'PLANETS' NOT FOUND** uh...what were we talking about?
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Randall Munroe is my spirit animal.
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Unicorn Thresher is a great planet name. 
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Not a single Star Trek reference. Impossible! Especially because ';DROP TABLE PLANETS;' clearly shows that code monkeys are not far.
Sent from my BatComputer via HAL 9000 and M5
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And the only Star Wars®©™ (and probably $¢¥£Σ as well) reference was corrupted...
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Pilf - Planet I'd Like to terraForm. Works for me.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Had to be one of us...
Nope, no bacon.
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I bought the Surface RT when it came out. While I get more use out of the iPad mini and before that the Motorola Xoom, the Surface does have its moments, particularly where remote desktop is concerned. I have Win 8 installed on a test box but don't use it. All my boxes run 7.
Win 8 is the new Vista, the OS people love to hate. I don't use it beyond the Surface because it doesn't really do anything for me on a PC or laptop. Sure, I can zip past Metro and go into the desktop in Win 8, but it doesn't give me anything that Win 7 isn't already doing. It also bears a striking visual resemblance to Win 3.1. Yuck.
I see 8 more as a bridge OS than a right now endeavor. In another year or two, that's the OS average people will be running since that's what they'll get on their new boxes. At which point Metro will seem normal.
That's where I think MS is playing the long game, which I hope will benefit both Windows Phone and tablets. A massive installed base will lead to familiarity and the possibility that people will want their computer, phone and tablet to have a common look & feel. It's not a killer strategy, but it's a reasonable one.
Personally, I don't know any other way MS could do this beyond the schizophrenic creature that is Win 8. You have to have the desktop. There are too many apps out there, and a great many of them would be diminished by a phone UI (I'm going to write a book, produce a feature film, mix an album or sling code on a tablet or my phone? Unlikely.) So, if you want to get in the tablet game, you have to have a second UI suitable for mobile, and somehow try to munge them together.
MS is trying to bring Windows into the mobile era, but it's no small challenge. If they fired Balmer and hired you, how would you approach this problem?
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I was going to suggest "I'd buy Google" - but I suspect they already did that...
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Better yet, get Apple to hire Balmer.
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What you're saying makes a lot of sense and I don't think Win 8 will fail because it is not innovative I think it's more the fact that we're forced to have out PC's, Tablet's, Phone's and the kitchen sink look and feel the same.
I think I would have made Win 8 UI more modular, i.e. what do YOU want it to look like and have "Plug-ins"? to make it look and feel the way the customer wants it, where the "plug-ins"? could be created by someone with a little bit of savvy.
Just my two sense!
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It's a good idea but you're still faced with the same fundamental problem. How do you make one OS work for both desktop and phone without sacrificing usability for apps on either side of the street?
Windows desktop is tedious beyond belief on the Surface. Metro would be a challenge to port a full featured desktop app to without it being equally tedious.
Not an easy problem to solve, to be sure.
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