I'm getting the sense that the reason people don't see my value is because not only are they not using logical methods of picking talent in a fucked up fiat world, which if they weren't, would pick up the slack where the other thing I'm about to say fails, but also because they don't have any established trust with me. I don't have the well-develiped skills to network and such, which I've already known, but what I'm seeing now is that that means they don't feel the connection with me, the bond of like "I feel safe hiring this guy on."
Every job I've ever gotten had some element of trust being developed at the hiring stage, like I made a good impression, I seemed happy and articulate and confident, in technical positions I actually understood the work I submitted as a test and was able to explain my design choices, or there was some preexisting relationship between people on my team and people on the next company I went to work with.
I suck at developing this trust. It's a skill that obviously I have in some degree, but I rarely exercise it anymore. I have felt utterly unable to. Perhaps there is a way though. And perhaps this is exactly what I should focus my, lately very diffuse and hesitant, energies on.