I suspect all the replies about jobs being easy to find and they’re just too picky are coming from people who have not experienced the way things are now, haven’t experienced it yet at least. I have, and my neighbor is right now, with resumé after resumé after resumé sent out and not one face to face interview all year long, just two phone interviews and no offers to show for daily scouring of every online site, the state ESC office, you name it, she’s tried it, never been unemployed in her life until now. She’s fighting despondency by volunteering at the foodbank and her church, and has taken in her brother who also lost his job. He can’t get unemployment benefits, he was self employed. I worry for them.
It is very easy for someone (with a job) to tell someone else how easy it is to find one. Well, it isn’t. My brother was unemployed for about 8 months. You are right.. resume after resume. Most didn’t get an interview and the few that did... the people were lined up out the door. Fortunately, his wife had a job (although it was decreased from 40 hours to 32). Yes, I did tell them that if they needed help... I could decorate the basement into an apartment. I also watched their child when both were gone. What’s the saying? ... when someone else loses a job it is a recession, when I lose a job, it’s a depression. Prayers for your neighbor and her brother. They sound like good people.