Reading your question makes me wonder if you're tackling the correct issue.
- Why do you feel the need to work on the side to "leverage your skills" ? Your fulltime job should give you this opportunity.
- Why do you want to work with computers on your spare time ? Spare time is also a way to broaden your horizon. Go try new things, meet new people from different fields, etc. The fact that you describe yourself as having poor networking skills makes me wonder if you haven't spent a bit too much time alone in a front of a computer already.
- Why do you feel the need to work on the side to "leverage your skills" ? Your fulltime job should give you this opportunity.
- Why do you want to work with computers on your spare time ? Spare time is also a way to broaden your horizon. Go try new things, meet new people from different fields, etc. The fact that you describe yourself as having poor networking skills makes me wonder if you haven't spent a bit too much time alone in a front of a computer already.