Probably the most difficult thing to accomplish these days is landing a job. In the old days, when you wanted a job, you opened the newspaper, turned to the want ads, and proceeded to select the job that you wanted. The want ad section of the newspaper was in the neighborhood of twenty pages, alphabetically ordered, and stuffed full of good jobs. Normally, you chose a job that was close to home and something that paid what you thought that you were worth. You could select from ten to twenty jobs that would be suitable in any given area. Today, the want ad section of the newspaper may have a half of one page and it will contain very few selections. Most of the jobs listed are not real offers. They are there to comply with the silly rules that companies have about offering a given position to "everybody", but they already know who they want for the position. If a person submits an application, the interviewer will find some reason to turn down the applicant. Lately, it has gotten even worse. Many ads say that, if you are unemployed, don’t even bother to submit an application; you must already have a job in order to apply. How stupid is that? It may never occur to the company that an unemployed person may be the perfect fit for the position. Bottom line: there are no jobs to be had. Think about it. The government has been sending all our jobs outside the country, this resulting in no work here at home. The workers in other countries make the products and then ship them here so that Americans will buy them. Of course, it doesn’t occur to the government that an American without a job will not have the money to buy the product. (Who elected these idiots?)

If you need a job, and you really want to work, here are three things to consider:

1. Forget everything you ever knew about finding a job. Things like resumes, applications, and references are all nonsense. Nobody reads these things and nobody cares what is in them. The "want ads" are useless, so don’t look at these areas for employment. All the stuff about dressing for the job you want, practicing your pitch, being punctual, or how to stand, sit, or enter a room is gone.

2. Find out what works now. Look around at people who are employed and ask how they managed to get their job. Different things work now. Sadly, you will probably discover that most people have gained their positions because they knew someone in the company. They are either a relative or a close friend of somebody who works there. So, your best bet is to go where you are known to someone already employed. Ask them to speak for you and then apply. Today it is all about "who you know".

3. Don’t be fussy. Take anything that is offered to you. This is not the time to complain about the hours, or the type of job, or the rate of pay. If you can make a steady paycheck, go to work and say "thank you" to the person who spoke for you. Remember, for every American who is looking for work, there are hundreds of Mexicans who would gladly take the job.