> Any niche you could suggest? I think it's not question of learning a fancy programming language or web framework. It's about being able to solve problems for

> Any niche you could suggest? I think it's not question of learning a fancy programming language or web framework. It's about being able to solve problems for companies so it varies a lot with your interlocutor and time. So without work experience it is difficult to gain any expertise. Yet there are a lot of open source projects that deal with real life problems. If you have a provable experience with one of those project (simply running one with a large audience is enough, no need for contributing patches), it may count for a recruiter. Depending on your interest it could be something technical (storage, workflow, API) or something transversal like payment, accounting, human ressources, learning.