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.