Hello,
I am pretty sure there are tons of jobs in SharePoint admin in US as I always get email for it. I am currently in Canada working as SharePoint admin from last 7 years. If you need any help please send me email kundan at rogers dot com. By the way all employer will ask for certification. And you can learn sharepoint by ureself if you follow Microsoft published books. You need to built your own server . I am certified in SP 2007 / 2010 / 2013 / Office 365.

If you need and help feel free to email me and I can guide you to get ure certs


Thanks