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Almost every restaurant, fast food place, bog box store, etc. in my are is hiring. No excuse not to find something.

And those pay what you'd expect for places like that. So you run into two issues: low-paid people on unemployment, and high-paid people on unemployment.

Low-paid people on unemployment make more with free checks than they would working for $10 an hour (if even that high). FedGov's $300 bonus per week IS ALREADY seven-fifty, more than minimum wage.

High-paid people on unemployment aren't looking at jobs like that. To start getting UI, you only have to look at jobs within 90% of your prior pay. By the time it ends (26 weeks of UI pay), you only have to be open to accept a job that's I think 60-70% of your prior income. If you were making $75M a year, 60% of that equates to ~$20 an hour, more than double what those open positions are paying.

At least for my industry, there are no open positions. Corporate AV, and the whole events industry in general, got absolutely demolished and still hasn't fully opened back up. It'll be years before we get back to what it was - conferences and meetings and so on depend on companies being willing to host and attend those events, not just Gov't getting its big stop sign out of the way. On top of companies realizing they can save a lot of $$$ by just doing meetings on Chinese video applications like Zoom, their people just aren't pissed enough at losing their end-of-year awards dinner extravaganza.

At least for my industry, there are no open positions. Corporate AV, and the whole events industry in general, got absolutely demolished and still hasn’t fully opened back up. It’ll be years before we get back to what it was - conferences and meetings and so on depend on companies being willing to host and attend those events, not just Gov’t getting its big stop sign out of the way. On top of companies realizing they can save a lot of $$$ by just doing meetings on Chinese video applications like Zoom, their people just aren’t pissed enough at losing their end-of-year awards dinner extravaganza.
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Same in my industry (we are in the same industry). Events Production. No conferences or events mean no jobs. Yeah extremely low-end entry-level jobs have came back. Not anything considered skilled. Small businesses who did the fair/carnival circuit are in the same boat. Travel and tourism, likewise.

Yeah we are “moochers” for not wanting to take the part-time menial blue-collar labor jobs that are offered.

$2.13 an hour plus tips or $7.25 a hour. Even $15/ hr at 24 hours a week doesn’t cut it. No one gets full-time at these jobs.

Nope. Why don’t a certain stalker take one of these “great jobs” and try living on it before passing judgement on others?