I would starting blogging and redirecting your SEO clicks back to your personal site. I did that and it has been working well for me

Example, I wrote a django article a year ago, and if you google Django development it is #3 in the search (at least from NYC/NY today with fresh browser (no cache))

https://www.google.com/search?q=django+development&oq=django...

I didnt intend for this to be the case, but luckily I have gotten freelance clients this way.