I can't take it anymore.............
I can't get a job, let alone an interview. I filled out a 10 page application last week for a $10 an hour job, they won't hire me because I'm too educated. I went up to the local hospital today (supposedly their shuttle/van drivers are in need of extras). The hospital won't take a paper app & you can only apply for what's posted on line. No van driver positions listed on line.
I send out 40-50 resumes to posted positions weekly, no contact after that with hiring company. I just can't stand it any more. This is 3 years of unemployment. I'm down to my last $200 in the bank, I've got 3 brothers who don't even fucking care, they're all employed. One retired and employed.
I can't stand it anymore.
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sorry you have to go through it as well..
I was in your situation summer 2012. Everything turned around after I got a job. It can happen for you too.
Being jobless and being unable to find any work is a kind of mental torture. I hope things turn around for you quickly.
The asshole repukes in Congress are so busy with their damned tantrums and shutdowns that they don't even want to deal with doing anything to help Americans get work.
As of the end of October, I'll be unemployed for five years. It's been hell feeling so useless and unwanted, sending hundreds of resumes out into the Void from which nothing returns.
I'm fortunate that my husband has a job, I'm used to living frugally, and I'm several months from signing up for early Social Security. But it sounds like you don't have a safety net. Do you think that there is any way that Wishadoo, the web site run by DUer One Grass Root, could help you?
It was seven years for me between being unemployed and early retired.
I learned that the seven year grieving period also applies to a career.
I've been feeling much better since deciding to give up the job search earlier this year. It's not going to happen unless something gets the economy moving again. It's much more important that younger people, single people, people with young kids and veterans get jobs, than it is for me to get one at this point.
My younger daughter (26) just came home from her part time waitress job at a mall restaurant, upset about how little she made in tips. They've been cutting everyone's hours and hiring lots of new part-timers, while at the same time business is down because of the furloughs. We're about 15 miles from Washington DC; lot of federal workers forced to stay home.
If you go to your local office of Jobs and Family Service (or whatever similar agency is in your area) they will tell you what jobs they are offering training (and sometimes placement) for.
Before I got sick I went there and told the lady that I was desperate and needed a job. I told her that I have sent out several resumes, had a ton of interviews, and nothing was working. She took me in her office and showed me a brochure with several professional jobs on it. Nursing, trucking, etc. She gave me a series of tests and told me which ones I qualified for. All I had to do was pick one and they would pay for the training. I chose trucking because the training was only 4 weeks and I could go to work immediately when I was done. Sometimes the people in those offices will bend over backwards to help you.
I wish you the best!
I read that more & more people, particularly those over 50, are doing that because they can't find work.
Good luck. That sounds so cliche & shallow, but I just don't know what to say. America has become a mean-spirited country.
She told me she is actually semi-retired. 
Another friend offers administrative type services to seniors. She types letters, does shopping, that type of stuff. Her business started slow, but she's doing really well, now. A new "retired living" home opened & she was there with her flyers & a smile.
