Nothing hurts more than being rejected...all the time. It seems like I never have enough experience or there is someone with a little more experience than I. But these are the breaks. So I'm left to suck it up. Tuck it in and get back to work. There's gotta be someone out there that wants me.
Now to face the fork in the road of my life and career. On the one hand I have the option of sticking with ASP.NET and all that entails. I've always tried to stay away from proprietary solutions but what the clients want the clients get. I've been working in C# for a year and a half. Visual Studio has made me a lazy programmer. Since it seems to know what I want to do before I finish typing it. This can be a godsend and can a curse.
On the other hand there is always learning the F/OSS languages Python, Perl, PHP. The market is starting to involve more of these solutions but the question of money is always raised. Who pays in the end? The clients want a free solution but some neglect the cost of development. And developers aren't cheap.
In the meantime, all those projects that I passed on because I thought I was going to be studying abroad, can I have them back please?