I don't have advice about mobile dev, but I can tell you that there is always an under-served niche of local businesses and artists that need web dev work done.

I don't have advice about mobile dev, but I can tell you that there is always an under-served niche of local businesses and artists that need web dev work done. They are under-served because they fall in the gap where they do not have the expertise required to do it themselves, nor money to hire a professional company to do it, and because most free-lancers, once they build a resume, do not bother with small projects like theirs and prefer to either get a full-time gig, or build their free-lancing career and price themselves above the range that these people can afford to pay. Which makes them easy pickings for someone like you - especially now with the proliferation of open source frameworks, e-commerce solutions (just don't use osCommerce or any of its relatives for the love of god), cms's, wikis, and what have you, which cover 99% of what a small business/art gallery/whatever requires. So, this is one way to bootstrap your resume by doing this type of gigs as a free-lancer for a year or so. It's nice side-income next to your full-time job, it builds your resume that you can demonstrate when you are next interviewing, and you get to figure things out and find solutions for people with real-world projects and problems that they need solved. Do not underestimate the value of your knowledge and skills - to most people what you do is black magic, and even though you may feel like you are a beginner (and honestly, that feeling will never go away because there's _always_ going to be more stuff to learn - see Impostor Syndrome), it is still worth money to them to use your skills and time.