when you're between gigs fighting rejection probably the hardest thing I

it's amazing how quickly you can cycle down to low (depression) when you send out resumes and talk to people about employment (1099/w2).

You get contacts from:
1. agency headhunters who want to show you the next great thing (of course they don't actually have it; they are just trying to up the number of submissions), or ...
2.  company websites, to say thank you very much for replying.
( if in fact we actually want to interview you we will let you know thanks).

But you have to up the failure rate. And the only thing in marketing that I understand well is that if you don't make contacts you can't possibly sell your product; in this case you're prodoct is yourself and it's damn difficult to do.