The other day my Voc Rehab counselor sent me an email asking me how things were going and let me know she's been in contact with my employment specialist. So, I just told her the truth.
I told her that frankly this is a depressing situation and there are no jobs whatsoever in the area because that's exactly what it is. There really are none. Hell, even Office Depot wouldn't hire me because the freight job I interviewed for required a lot of heavy lifting. The hiring manager told me I should keep looking for tech associate positions and I have been fairly regularly because according to him, they come up all the time. Well, I have yet to find a single one.
I also told her that my E.S. isn't to blame for this, it's the shitty area. Sure, it looks like an area where rich people live, but unless you can handle retail or shittier wage fast food, you're fucked.
So there it is. I'm stuck in a rut and no matter what I do there's no way out. At this point I'm out of ideas and I'm sick and tired of listening to the blatant lies of hiring managers. I can't start my own business because there's no money whatsoever to be made from doing so and it would cost more to market a product than I'd ever make back.
So now I'm having to run with the medical billing idea again. Might as well seeing that I've nothing left to lose and no one wants to hire for a lower level database administrator looking to get his foot in the door. If I hear the phrase 'The right job will come along' one more time, I'll fucking scream at the top of my lungs.
See you around,
Homer