My experience job hunting.

theres not many of them, they just wanted trump gone,and now that trump is gone theyre slowly realizing they voted literally for the corruption lol no $2000, no BLM planned meetings, no defund the police, no arrest trump, no impeaching trump is the old senate, not creating jobs but bus in illegals to take your job in middle of a recession soon to be depression. theyre realizing this actually faster than i expected.

Maybe it's the way you look?

Thank God I get a pittance from social security. I'm a professional musician, and in PA, there's no music venues open. They are starting to open up, so we shall see. I also worked in elderly care, but since i don't ever want to take the vax, I can't work in that industry anymore.
I tried a couple of shit jobs in local deli's but they don't know if they should hire yet. They never know when the governor is going to shut them down again.
It's bad out there for some of us.
My sons have jobs that can be done on computers and are doing great. Thank God for that!

It might help to join a church or AA meeting group even if you intuitively cringe at either concept or would say you don't fit the bill. Either scenario is people on a daily basis looking to help get each other into a good place. You might even enjoy the company and in time be able to help others in your shoes.

I know that some will reject this flat out. But verily, beggars cannot be choosers.

Prayer and regularly seeing groups of people will, by volition of itself, drastically increase your odds of finding work as opposed to just roughing it alone, which so often leads to an perpetual recurrence of silence and despair.

OP, at least here in NJ, the stone masons are crying for help. The local union hall here will collar any young fellow who walks by slowly and has all his limbs, lol. Seriously, they will set you up as an apprentice, give you $600 worth of tools for free and set you up with one of their members. Mind you, it’s real work, but I’m told that you can expect something like $400-$600 per week to start, annd the work is pretty much continuous.

Electricians need helpers, too, and if you don’t mind working on unheated jobsites in the winter there is plenty of work; and again, emphasis on work. You can’t be a slouch in these jobs, or you’ll get let go fast. As a famous coach once said, “You can’t put a price on hustle”.

Anyway, hope you find something soon!.

Go to small towns. It’s cheaper to live there on minimum wage. Most pay more than minimum now. There are always jobs in supermarkets.

Amazon starts at $15/hr and all you have to do is walk...

I was gainfully employed for 20+ years, then a downturn in my industry.

LinkedIn, Monster, Indeed... all fucking worthless! They are networking portals for 20 something year old girls looking to job hop.

You ever see the resume of a 20 something year old female? Doesn't stay at one job longer than 3 months, yet jumps from position to position and works their way up incredibly fast.

From intern to VP in under a year. No experience and even less talent or ability. It's like some Bizarro fake job world out there.

I honestly think the male senior partners of every company just hire hot 20 year females and populate their companies with them. Or 20 something guys so that they can pay them peanuts and work them 80 hours a week.

Especially in the marketing/desing business... it's all run by 20 something girls, and the 3 older male partners. That's an American company in the year 2021.

Been unemployed for about 9 months now.

Yes majority was during the covid crap.

I've filled out hundreds of applications, sent my resume to hundreds of places, nada.

I see the same job postings day after day.

I go to places in person, i ask about job postings online.

I am met with snarky attitudes, i am told that if they are interested they will call me.

I am also told by some places that they are not hiring at all(despite an online job posting), or an outside company does the hiring.

Fake jobs, fake life.

Also I spoke with an unemployment counselor who works with the city, he told me currently there are way more people out of work than jobs available.

What does this mean? hundreds if not thousands of applicants for each job, and super picky employers

At this point getting a job is like winning the lottery.

I live in a small town.
I have applied so many places it's very discouraging.

I am a certified paralegal with a business degree and a veteran.

I thought about doing paralegal side gigs like filing ssi or va comp.

What about donating plasma in the meantime? Usually the plasma-donating centers are conveniently located near alleyways and/or cardboard dumpsters where if you bring some plastic wrap and unpack your dingaling at certain hours a magical crack hooker will appear and even blow you for seven or eight bucks.

So depending on how much plasma you have in you, you could go from center city blood joint to center city blood joint both getting $50-$75 for the plasma, then a BJ after, resulting in ~$42-43 to ~$67-68 right off the bat.

Take a particularly good scenario, you give plasma at place A one morning and make $68.00 (after BJ). Take that $68, put 10 in the tank.

Now you got $58.00 and a tank of gas, and you already blew your daily load, and can arrive around noon at another plasma center, where for an hour's worth of plasma you make $50.00.

Suddenly it is not even dinner time, and you have made $108.00, still have half a tank of gas, and have not really even done anything.

The only thing you have to do is not smoke a cigarette for four hours after you give plasma. However, you could technically do this if you have a good tolerance for being extremely lightheaded and don't get dizzy too easily.

Meanwhile, other fellers in your shoes have been depressingly sitting on their computers all day applying for jobs they don't even give a shit about, getting bummed out, and trapped in a vicious circle that will probably, worse still, lead to superfluous spending.

Now let's say you do something similar each Wednesday. This leaves you Monday and Tuesday, as well as Thursday and Friday, to work the plasma grind all around the center cities of your state.

Say you do the original plan four times per week, but let's begin with plasma alone.

Here you are looking at roughly $432.00 per week.

Now minus saran wrap every three months at three dollars per box, which thus takes one dollar per month.

You can safely enjoy yourself downtown for what is essentially a quarter per week (before fees) and if you are particularly horny that week you could be looking at roughly a half dollar or dollar's worth of saran wrap.

This would bring you near $431.00, horniest-case scenario.

Now we also, of course, need to take into account food. But guess what? There are food banks everywhere! If you want to get expedited information on food banks near you, simply tell them you are part hispanic, part indian, and fall under the "questioning" category of LGBT!

It's that easy!

Thus, with your food taken care, you even have money now for weed and booze and smokes should you need them! And if it's going to take some weeks to have enough for a security deposit on a cheap room... you can do a temporary stay at a homeless shelter!

Then, years later, you can write your Memoirs all about this crazy period, and become mega rich after it gets turned into a movie!!!

You got this.

Thank me later!

One comment - I am a contract worker, working remote, for a large science/tech firm on the East Coast. I'm in the recruiting department doing admin assistant work, and they are doing a huge push for new candidates. HOWEVER, off the official record, but in the private recruiting chat channel, they talk about the quotas.

So if you're a talented, qualified white guy, you're at the bottom of the list. First, of course, are the "under represented" or "under served" people which is the new liberal/millennial code for not-white and/or gay, LBTQXYZwhatever. They even discussed that they couldn't tell if one applicant was gay or not (and they can't ask), but obviously that is a "bonus" point if that candidate was.

Next, of importance in selecting candidates, was "women," since it's a tech firm, but I'm sure they didn't mean white ones. Those are last but before white men.

I'm not trying to sound racist at all, but it just is what it is. If I were a non-white and I found out I got chosen just because I was, say, a brown, gay, woman, and not for my actual skills and abilities, I would be upset and felt pandered to.

What bugs me is *they* scream about equality but are the first to continue to reinforce differences. How about everybody is just judged by their merit/skills/background, etc. NOT THEIR DAMN SKIN COLOR, SEXUAL PREFERENCE OR AGE?

*sigh* I'm just really thankful I found this remote work gig. I'm slightly over 50 and at least with Zoom, you can apply a filter and adjust your appearance on the webcam, so these people have no idea how "old" I really am.

Edit: the recruiters mentioned above are all white and straight........FWIW

Agree with you OP.

I think the government is LYING about unemployment numbers. A ton of small businesses closed for good, and we are expected to believe that huge wave didn't affect the numbers in a huge way?

The numbers don't make it out to be that bad but let's use our brains here. Economy closed down in many states and that is hard to come back from quickly.

Agree with you on the same jobs being posted each day. I see that too. Another huge problem is temp agencies and other "hiring" agencies (funny terms for corporate middle men thieving entities) are everywhere.

As far as the attitude thing, that sucks when you encounter that in just the initial interviewing stages. Never a good sign, I tell those people to fuck off right away if I am given that snarky attitude. No job is worth that.

You people are stuck in a civilian world of job hunting that plainly just sux. As long as you are not a felon, have a US citizenship, and can get a simple CompTia security + cert, there are millions of jobs waiting for you in the DOD contractor field working for defense contractor companies. Easiest I terviees, no hyperbole of race, better money, and millions of jobs always ready to be filled.

In the early years of Steve Job's career, he would go into meetings with potential investors barefoot and smelling like a hippie...because well, he was a hippie...and he became a billionaire...

You cannot get a job at McDonald's if you are white...

Been unemployed for about 9 months now.

Yes majority was during the covid crap.

I've filled out hundreds of applications, sent my resume to hundreds of places, nada.

I see the same job postings day after day.

I go to places in person, i ask about job postings online.

I am met with snarky attitudes, i am told that if they are interested they will call me.

I am also told by some places that they are not hiring at all(despite an online job posting), or an outside company does the hiring.

Fake jobs, fake life.

Also I spoke with an unemployment counselor who works with the city, he told me currently there are way more people out of work than jobs available.

What does this mean? hundreds if not thousands of applicants for each job, and super picky employers

At this point getting a job is like winning the lottery.

I'm 58 and was laid off at the end of May. At the beginning, hundreds would apply for 1 job, I wasn't getting any interviews. I would get the occasional interview, made it through 3 rounds at a couple of places, then didn't get the job.

Fast forward to the holidays, I kept applying through December and after a week of 6 interviews, I finally got a job. What a relief! I start on Monday.

All I can say is keep applying, if a 58 year old person can get a job, then you can too!

I do some hiring for IT and developers.

From a hiring perspective there's just a lack of passion from applicants to actually do the work. Most often times Im mainly looking for the least lazy person. Things I see constantly.

-lives a bohemian lifestyle and changes jobs ever couple months. Great it takes years to get good at certain jobs but its nice to know your gonna leave whenever you get an itch. This is very common for people in their 30s.

-People 25 and under I can sum up 90% of them with this: Their mom made them go to school, they play video games all day so they went for computers. They dont know anything or have any interest in how they work. They dont even get on their home computer and cant even tell you what version of Windows it runs. They used some tools in class but thats extent of their computer knowledge. Oh and they want to be a developer to make mobile video games, but they never taken any steps to start that. They also have no idea what video game they want to make. They basically have never done anything with technology unless it was a class/group assignement and they cant give you any details on that. "i dont know the teacher did something with Sequel". Thats been my last 100 interviews with people under 25. Somewhere along the way these people were told if they just show up for class they will get a degree and their life will be roses. Nobody talks about this but many degrees arent the open door they once were. Most of them seem to be paper farms these days and businesses are catching on.

Women over 50 are the worst. Can't stand being around them

New Jersey (my state, too) supposedly has the highest unemployment rate ... but those must be all the waitresses because the construction industry is BOOMING.

Several guys we know have started their own companies and hired friends.

You're right about hustle, though. Can't be a slacker and make it here.

While I don't condone that activity, I believe the employer should have the right to hire, or not hire, anyone they wish...If I want all black females, then I should have that right, but the government should not have that power...

The article, “What the Hell is Going On In Human Resources?” Asked the same question. Delivery jobs have been flooded with new hires during the last several months due to the same issue. I call it tribalism. They are hiring relatives of workers employed...as a vetting process. You have to be referred by someone within the company. This was always frowned upon until now. The government also practices this form of selective hiring.

Been unemployed for about 9 months now.

Yes majority was during the covid crap.

I've filled out hundreds of applications, sent my resume to hundreds of places, nada.

I see the same job postings day after day.

I go to places in person, i ask about job postings online.

I am met with snarky attitudes, i am told that if they are interested they will call me.

I am also told by some places that they are not hiring at all(despite an online job posting), or an outside company does the hiring.

Fake jobs, fake life.

Also I spoke with an unemployment counselor who works with the city, he told me currently there are way more people out of work than jobs available.

What does this mean? hundreds if not thousands of applicants for each job, and super picky employers

At this point getting a job is like winning the lottery.

Yea I mean I firmly believe that the universe guides us to our proper fate. I have been thoroughly demoralised as far as applying for jobs. I have a specialised skill set and bachelors degree, but also an immigration status. Nothing. No one calls, no one emails, even for jobs I could do with my hands tied behind my back.

God obviously does not want me doing any of that stuff. I ain’t no bible tard but I am very much a servant of my god. I do what he wills. Right now that is not to work for money,

I have everything I need. All the wonderful food and clothing, anything I want. This is how I know I am on the right path. I almost went crazy not working,I love working! I love being productive!! It breaks my heart that I don’t work. But this is what god wants, and god provides.