This unemployment is driving me mad... I just don't get it.

Are using this Picasa album (http://picasaweb.google.com/variant1/PortfolioRyanRMiller#) as your portfolio? If you’ve been ‘down and out for 18+ months’ what do you have to show for it? Lets see what you’ve been working on in that time and what projects and development to your portfolio you have to show.