You can also check your local temp agencies to see if they are hiring. If you lack computer skills check out the local library for free classes. I have found that it is easier to find a job when you already have one. That means take a lower paying crap job to look more desirable to another employer. Sometimes you have to do that to get ahead. Check the fast food restaurants as they are always hiring. Small stores like Family Dollar or Dollar General are hiring. Go to Walmart. There are jobs out there but no one wants to take them. I’ve been there before and worked in fast food as an adult. It was the worst job I’ve ever had.

If you don’t have your degree see about getting a free grant to go back to school to make yourself more marketable. There is something to do. You just have to look for it.

@Billy Ray jr = Subway in Century and Gonzalez, Tom Thumb, Dollar General and a few others have told me “Over Qualified”..
I have been told more times than I want to hear. They look at my job history (2 Jobs my entire life of working from age 18 & now 44) I have never been a job bouncer and that is not helping me, instead hindering.
Oh, and I am not collecting unemployment compensation, so I am not living off the system.
Contracts get under bid and companies often look out for themselves and not the people that have been there for years! So Lay Off is only clear way they see for not winning the contract again .. that Bites!

I saw a help wanted sign in the window of subway sandwich shop on Corry Station.

It is taken from a poll of homes randomly selected and changing and includes questions such as:
How many in your home are employed?
How many are employed but are seeking or wanting employment?

People not wanting employment are not considered unemployed: underage children, students, retired folks.
People who wish employment are considered unemployed even if they have no job skills, no work ethic and nobody in his right mind would consider hiring them. (Example: high school dropout with shaky hands and poor eyesight and drug addictions who want to be brain surgeons are unemployed — and should be.)

Regarding the question Where the jobs?

Everyone you see working has a job. That’s where the jobs are.

Do they need more workers? Ask.
Can you do the job? If yes, apply. If no, can you learn to do the job? If yes and you are willing to do the work to get the job, have at it. If no, look elsewhere.

The school district needs bus drivers/operators. This requires passing drug test, passing a physical, getting a CDL-B, with school bus endkrsement. If you meet the first two but lack the third, they will train you free of charge. If you want to be hired permanently, you also bave to be tobacco-free, but substututes don’t have that restriction.

If that doesn’t look like your cup of tea, check with others for job openings and requirements. Pay special attention to the jobs you think you might enjoy but note that jobs people do NOT enjoy doing are most likely to have openings and pay more. (Which makes one wonder why there are ALWAYS openings for bus operators.)

Best of luck.

David for open eyes