Your impression of CI3 over others?

Look: I got turned down twice on job interviews because i was still using Codeigniter. So i'm done with it. It's either Laravel or Synfony for me because that's what the job market is asking. If you run a small firm and are able to determine the technology being used, great. Stick with CI. Otherwise, smart up and learn to use a modern framework or you're not getting a job.

Where do you live? Maybe i can help. My uncles an awesome recruiter

Thank you, but i don't think you can help. I'm from Portugal.

Eek, yeah, sorry. 

I would say try something like Elance, but when I tried that, there was no way I could make it, theres so many people from India there that can afford to work for like $5 and $6 an hour, doing some pretty impressive work... and all validated for, so it was a lost cause for me.