The passive tense is not a hallmark of good writing. Rewrite (but please don't repost).

May I ask how you found out about your present job? It sounds like it'd be right up my alley. Thank you.

Not so long ago, I was in a similar position to you. I was stuck writing for low-level technology trade magazines and really wanted to make the jump to a mainstream publication. On a lark, I sent a movie review to a well-known blog in the city where I live. I noticed the site had very little movie content. I asked the editor if he wanted me to do some movie reviews. He liked the sample I sent him and said yes.

I was lucky that he was a very supportive editor who encouraged everyone to write as much as they wanted about whatever subjects they wanted. Very soon, I started writing about all sorts of things: local politics, music, art, pop culture, etc. All of this was for NO PAY, but I did it in my spare time between my various crappy, paid writing gigs. I soon got a nice section editor title at the blog. Still no pay but it made me sound official, and there were cool perks like occasional free concert tickets. Plus, writing for an audience on a daily basis (and the withering criticism that came with it) made me a better writer.

I used the writing I did for the blog as a springboard to apply for jobs at mainstream magazines. Eventually it worked. I got a well-paying, highly coveted job at major publication. At all of the publications I applied for a job, they didn't give shit about the 7 years of trade magazine writing I had done. The ONLY clips they looked at were from the 1 year of blogging I did.

Perhaps there is some sort of online publication or blog in your area of interest/expertise that would be happy to have a(nother) unpaid blogger. You could do it in your spare time without giving up your job.

There are plenty of paths to your destination. But this is a good one for those who have the ambition but not the contacts, the clips or the experience. Good luck.

PS-When I tried to recruit some of my talented writer friends to write for the blog, they scoffed or blew me off. One even said, "Does it pay? No? Then why should I bother?" I wanted to scream, "Because you have no writing clips and no one's EVER going to hire you for a writing job without that!" I just shrugged and dropped the subject. He still works at a video store.