I suppose I have to end the pity party somethime

But probably not quite yet. Although I had a 3 month temp job, it's been 9 months and I still haven't found a permanent job. Off hand, I'd say that I'm totally unemployable except in low paying, unskilled jobs.

So I need to work. Any good ideas?

For what it's worth, when the temp agency called to say the assignment was ending the guy kept on saying how happy the client had been and what an excellent job I'd done. But really how hard is it to accurately query databases and enter the information into another database?