When you can't find a job anywhere, even becoming a McDonald's reject, try making money from moments of desperation and a change in your mode of operation.
the chronic "things to change" list
If you have been looking for a job for an extended period of time, consider that you just may be hard to employ, and the same things that Employer A would not choose you for, also Employer B,C,D, E,F, G, H, also would not choose you for the same reasons. It means instead of keeping putting yourself out there and keeping getting discouraged and beat down, work at changing those reasons. Get others to help you. Get community agencies to help you.
the continual assets list
Realize that those who are easy to employ are impressing Employers A-H in all the same ways. Those who are easy to employ may be easy to get along with, well-prepared, have a solid work history, good credit, a reliable vehicle....
what chronic "things to change" costs in reality
It may be a small group of things that is keeping you hard to employ, but when you look at the fact that each employer sees it, it costs you many thousands of dollars. Examples of things that employers would look at, across the board could be: lack of real world work experience, lack of a consistent job history, lack of references, don't own a reliable personal vehicle.
moment of desperation yields $15,360.00 potential
If you are truly hard to employ, you need to then work the system to your advantage. In a moment of desperation in the middle of the night, trying to help a friend who is also hard to employ who was borrowing money for rent from me shortly after I finally found a position myself, I looked up (in the search engine Google) the words HARD TO EMPLOY (and the name of my city).
This led me to an agency that helps people who are hard to employ find and maintain jobs. The pretax earnings for this moment of desperation if he can manage to keep this $8 an hour full time job even a year: "$15,360.00. After 6 months of unemployment, this sounds good. It sounds even better to me, because I don't need to help when it hurts my own finances.
The potential of that moment is even greater now, because we are working together on investing funds, so $15,360.00 may become so much more, particularly since we both discount shop everything and so may have extra funds to invest from that.
my moment of desperation yields $1350.00 free medical transcription course
A moment of desperation for myself after being in caregiving but knowing I cannot work in it forever, led me, in the middle of the night, to find a medical transcription scholarship on the Internet. With two references, researching to get a solid knowledge of what medical transcription entailed, and a breakdown of my budget and why I merited the scholarship, I proceeded to blow them away and won the scholarship. This can possibly lead to $40,000.00 a year earning potential and definitely it frees up my budget not paying $1600 for a Career Step course. The name of the medical transcription program that offers these scholarships several times a year is "CAI Transcription, Inc", and you can find them by searching the search engine google or another good search engine.
when you are unemployed, use these moments of desperation to your advantage
Use the feelings of desperation to turn on your creativity, realizing that just one creative moment could solve the problem. Realize that to get different results, you have to stop what you have been doing and do something else.
serendipity is what led me to my current employer
Not a one of the many applications I put in over the course of a year did a thing. It was a serendipitous happening when I got my job. I was about to go back to school, and I parked across from the school, next to a caregiving agency. "NOW HIRING" was on the window. Come to find out, they are always hiring, and they hire entry level people. That also could be a lead for you...sometimes caregiving agencies do hire newbies.
a successful Macdonald's reject
And so here I am, a McDonald's reject with a Bachelor's degree, after nearly three years of a disabling illness and a one year job search, but against all odds, I am working, and into my second year with caregiving. My continually unemployed friend is working, and we are working on ways to create multiple streams of income.
conclusion
Believe you can succeed! And, even if you have been unemployed a year or two, use moments of desperation to your advantage always!
Thank you for your article and the links - you are shining light on an area that is too dark in everyday living. "Thank you" for all those people who are so poor they have lost their manners :)