Oh man, you absolutely should not be hurting for work right now. If you have any marketing aptitude, you can sell yourself and pitch the necessity of having an

Oh man, you absolutely should not be hurting for work right now. If you have any marketing aptitude, you can sell yourself and pitch the necessity of having an e-presence to cater to the youth. And if you're willing to sell your soul and go to Republican meet-ups (I certainly was), even Illinois' 13th seat which historically goes 80/13 and is basically a lock will spend 30k in petty cash right now if you can demonstrate experience with CRM conversions (i.e., think: donor dbs-- you can easily bill 250/hr if you're Salesforce certified). DC is glorious for engineers during uncertain election years especially for congressmen who are naturally always in fundraising mode, I used to clean up even during mid-terms. I don't bother with cold-calling ever but everyone's accessible now. Get penned for 15 minutes with campaign managers for congressmen and whoever's running their "social media outreach" component for senators (those fish are harder to catch, your return-on-time-investment is going to be best spent targeting vulnerable congressmen).