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 good advice, thank you! Will share with my husband.
It's unfortunate that getting a job seems to be so much more difficult than it used to be. I remember the days when you could just email your resume and get a response fairly quickly. Now many times the hiring team may not even see your resume because it doesn't have enough keywords, or tick all the boxes in the ATS...
Don't think about "getting a job". That's wrong-think.
Think about earning enough money each day to survive, and then some.
When I was made redundant for the second time I was pissed off with employers. I stopped thinking about "getting a job". I sat down and calculated the minimum daily amount that we needed to survive. Turned out that it was only $100. So I went out and did work for people who paid me. It's good if you can do work that you enjoy. It doesn't need to be something that you are "qualified" to do. Look for a niche.
Great advice
Thanks! Great advice, and we have been thinking of ways to do this during this time (I've been selling off things around the home to make extra cash, and we are looking into starting online businesses). I definitely prefer to work for myself vs someone else, it's both rewarding and challenging.
Any chance you live near sarasota florida?
An online business generally takes a couple of years to get going. I've done it so I know. As you need cash immediately, it's best to look for money-earners locally. Preferably something that requires no big investment in equipment and no special license.
For example: find a company that throws something away. Clean it or break it or repack it and sell it. That could be cardboard boxes to resell or pallets to chop up for firewood. Supermarkets discard lots of stuff including food.
In some areas, people put out broken snow blowers, lawnmowers, strimmers, etc. for free. These can be sold on as "spares or repair". Obviously, if you can fix them, you'll make a bigger profit.
I've never been without work because I have a number of skills: I can weld, solder, do carpentry, clean, paint. More specifically, I can repair electrical equipment, rebuild engines, do electrical wiring. Everyone has skills but sometimes they don't realise it. If not then they can learn from YouTube videos!
I garden for rich elderly ladies who can’t anymore for $30/hour. I get exercise and money and sometimes plants and friends.