You are right in general that people have become picky but this economy does not even offer “any job”.
Well, it offers “any job” but there are 40+ applicants for even the jobs that would normally be easy to get: ie gathering carts in the Walmart Parking Lot, gasoline attendent at Sam’s Club, bagging groceries at the grocery store, overnight stocking in department stores - VERY difficult to get in this Obama economy.
Problem is - many seekers for one position. If you’re over 40 GOOD LUCK.
We’re living in very difficult times where the jobs that nobody wants now has 40+ applicants.
I’m on the hiring committee for a part time no benefits job (20-28 hours a week) with the possibility of having to drive to several different locations within our system. The job pays 10-12 bucks an hour and you don’t get reimbursed for mileage if you have to drive to one of the other locations. We had 221 applications, at least a dozen had masters degrees, and one was a recent Harvard grad. It’s the Obamaconomy.
I was unemployed/under employed for a couple of years...but kept fit working the garden and splitting logs for the wood stove.
Got my CDL licence after turning 70 and am now full time long haul truck driving around the US.