You all have been an encouraging community for me the last couple years, and I appreciate any prayers you can send our way. To give some context, my husband does contract IT work (remote/work from home), and his last contract ended in October. As you probably know, the job market has been tough recently, there's been a ton of layoffs and it's been hard for him to to find work in his field. He's applied to a ton of jobs, had a lot of recruiter phone calls, but nothing has come through yet. Many jobs are STILL requiring the vax (even remote ones!) which my husband will never do, and he's passed up good opportunities because of this. Since a lot of the work is contract based, most of the positions are only hiring for 6, 9, or 12 months. It's hard to find anything long term/permanent in his field anymore. He's thought about switching careers and has even applied to jobs outside his industry, but has a lot of good experience built up and as you know it's hard to switch careers later in life. Just praying for one of these opportunities to work out, and also if this is God leading him to something else, that he will be open to that calling.
Thank you so much, and please let me know if there's anything I can pray for you about as well!
EDIT: Thank you so much for everyone who took the time to respond! I shared all of the encouragement, prayers, advice, and job recommendations to my husband and we are so appreciative of all of you. I tried to reply or DM to each person here, but I apologize if I missed anyone. This community is awesome and I am so grateful to have found it. I hope to update you all soon with good news about a new job/opportunity for both of us! Much love and blessings to you ❤️
This is surprising to hear as I thought there were lots of jobs but so many people who don't want to work. Maybe that is more the service industry than the higher paying jobs like IT. I will most definitely say a prayer for you and your husband and I pray that the perfect job comes his way. God Bless.
Thank you! Yes, that is very much still the case for a lot of service industry jobs (restaurant, retail), but more recently, IT companies have been scaling back their workforce and bringing employees back into the office again. We are not looking to relocate at this time, and my husband was working remote for years before everything went remote, but now those jobs are so much harder to find because everyone wants them.
I think many IT jobs have been outsourced in the last several years by either moving off shore, or with low paid foreigners on visas in the US.
I don’t know, we are short on programmers and only get a couple applicants every time we put out a position.. My sister position we’ve been trying to fill for 5 years now and I could really use the help - I guess not many people want to work with Oracle stuff? I don’t know, maybe all the good ones are taken like women.
The company my brother works for is having a hard time getting people to work. So yeah that's the story for him. No one wants to work.