I'm scrolling through indeed. It's all 3 years experience, 5 years experience required. Licenses required. Blah blah. There don't seem to be any unskilled labor jobs which are what I always used to fall back on.
The jobs I have applied for don't respond. Farms don't seem to hire. There's various hard labor jobs but they only pay like 14 an hour.
All the old people parrot this "nobody wants to work" crap.
Well, where the fuck can I find some real motherfucking work that doesn't pay less than a living wage? Fucking 1 br apts are 1800+ a month and I'm not paying that on 500 a week.
It's like the only jobs left are advertised by picky companies looking for a fantasy worker.
Most of the jobs seem to be administrative or medical (I thought we needed people to build houses?) but, despite minimum wage being $15, millrights and industrial electricians only make $40.
That said, I've had a lot of luck doing one-off jobs for people. It's apparently impossible to get people to do things like paint decks or repair siding so people will pay decent rates just to get someone. Boomers whose kids moved to the other side of the country and can't rake leaves anymore are a goldmine. If you can do car repairs, consider a mobile repair/tire change/oil change service.
I don't even advertise at all and I'm getting more calls than I want to handle just off work of mouth.