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.
* Met the owner of a horizontal boring company - small operation, 1 crew. They literally started up because of the Google Fiber rollout. His team is half White, half Mexican, says they are overloaded with work, and can't find people to hire who can both do the work and take the high pressure, even paying 35 an hour. We got into the racial bits, he said the last White guy he hired came on just before they did a job in the middle of an intersection, and when police shut down traffic, something went wrong and expletives started flying. He nocall-noshowed the next day.
* Met a girl who bartends at a popular local joint. She says it is better than any other work she could be doing, and she makes 30 an hour averaged over her good nights (weekends) and bad nights (Mon/Tues). Women can just be flirty, but as a man you have to be good at socializing for a good tip.
* One of my Meng buddies works closely with a rural factory near me. Went for a site tour - young guys of all races running the machines/forklifts, but all of the welders are old, grey, and White. I asked about this and the Ops guy giving the tour said they begged the oldest guy to come back out of retirement as none of the young guys are interested, and the ones that are interested are bad. Can't find (good) workers, but tons of work. Their primary welding work was large underground tanks, and government work.
* Knew a guy who went into BLET (the cop boot camp) as he was out of options and had bills to pay. Climbed the ranks fast, but never made good money (I think 46k a year peak?). However, he drove the cop car everywhere and did security gigs as a side job, those paying 40-50 an hour. He also would occasionally lights and siren and go roaring around the interstates at night, if that is a perk to you. He never said it outright, but I also think he once pocketed a bunch of cash he confiscated off of a drug dealer. We do need more people on the inside, after all.
EDIT: Also forgot - at a casino a few years back and met a guy running a rural concrete crew. Small company, 2 crews. So hard to find good workers that they simply have to deal with constantly being shorthanded and the no-call-no-shows, then the guy showing up the next day like nothing ever happened. It is apparently so normal that they don't even bother confronting the guy anymore. Concrete work is crazy hard though, and he didn't mention pay, but I imagine it isn't low.