As an asides;
After the Late sixties.early seventies hippie excursion into I-don't-know-where-land ... I was able to get a job almost anywhere in a factory almost anywhere by walking in on Thursday/Friday and starting Monday (Northeast .. Boston area).
As a boomer, I never had trouble earning money ... always had a job .;.. but I DID see the job market decline around others as factories closed and kids no longer pumped gas or soda jerked
I didn't realize until later in life that Norman Rockwell had been assassinated (figuratively) and America had been raped.
I spent much of that time as kind of a vagabond and traveled on my thumb and on bikes pretty much everywhere. When I found myself somewhere with a broke down bike and no funds or just no funds, I could always find a job doing something. I walked into Galveston in 1965 and got a job washing dishes for $39 a week. 10 days later I was at a different restaurant for $72. A week after that I was making $100 a week selling shoes at a Thom Mcan. It was kind of like that all over the south and west.