Some critical info this page is missing is if the products are available for shipping to the US and how fast you can actually get them. I'd order a Raspberry Pi right now if I knew I'd have it in a week or so, but last I heard a lot of these units aren't easily available to those living in North America.
Creating my own job is a great way of putting it. I've been trying the freelancing thing, but the market is crowded for new people and I think I'm still refining my skills.
As far as non-tech stuff goes, general IT and computing work has been my entire job history. So I think I'd be better off sticking with that, but I'm up for considering anything.