If I were in your position, I would probably do these steps: 1. Make sure I know where do I stand with my personal safety net. Will I have problem with visa? W

If I were in your position, I would probably do these steps: 1. Make sure I know where do I stand with my personal safety net. Will I have problem with visa? What is my 'runway', i.e: when will I start having problems with paying rent/morgage? You say you have money until the end of the year. 2. Then I would plan for some sort of worst-case scenario, probably something along the lines "If I don't get decent contract in 3 months I am moving somewhere cheaper", and plan accordingly, probably selling the apartment, making sure all my paperwork is in order, e.t.c. Probably would start searching for positions abroad in 2 months time? 3. I would try to polish up my resume. Maybe find a way to pivot from "I an awesome jquery guy" to "My UX design is awesome and I can talk to the 'serious-people'" (Basically the main idea of patio11 http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/ http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...) 4. I would probably try to get at least some visible experience in something else than jquery. On one hand this would be to prove myself that if if I would want to pivot myself to "I am a UX guy and don't care about underlying technology that much" to try out if that is actually true. Second, to have a $NON_JQUERY project on my resume. I would probably try to call some of my friends (maybe at my local church) if they needed some landing page or something, and hopefully in a month I would have something like a "React landing page for $local-church-url" on my resume. Ok, might not be react, might be angular 2.0, or whatever. (Disclaimer, if somebody asked how did I get Xamarin experience on my resume, I wouldn't be that far from this made-up example :)l