Where are the jobs

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Anonymous wrote:Home health aide!! There are so many old people who want to age in their homes and not move to assisted living, and that number is only going to increase in the future.

+1! We have been searching for this for my mom. So many home health care agencies hire illegal immigrants because most citizens don’t want to do this job for the pay. It’s a mess!

Fixed it for you. For the right money, I'd happily take care of your mom, and I'd be great at it. But it's hard work, often with odd hours, and anybody you'd trust is also qualified to do something else that pays at least as well.

We were paying $35 an hour, legal, for home health caregivers for Mom on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. They drove her around, prepared meals, and walked with her (several miles a day.)

I assume you are paying that to a company, I bet the actual worker is getting $20 per hour or less.

This. I would love a job like this and would be great at it based on my education and background but the pay is so low (usually starting at $16/hr) and often with no benefits. Working through a company ensures liability coverage (important when driving etc.) but much less pay. When my husband lost his job, I entered the school system instead. Pay is still not amazing ($25/hr) but benefits are great and cover our family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Property Management, I realize this might not be for everyone, but we can't find competent people that will stay for more than 2 months. My company owns and operates apartment communities (we are not in the DMV, in a much lower COL area) and we recently revamped our whole pay structure - Leasing Agents (no experience necessary) went from $17/hour to $25/hour starting, plus commission, with a ton of room for growth. Maintenance techs went from $22/hour to $30/hour starting, Maintenance Supervisors are now $40/hour. Community Managers went from $70k starting to $100k starting. Vacation now starts at 3 weeks instead of 2 and every other vacation band got a week added, plus our salaries are all being adjusted to match the new numbers. And we still can't find people!! We are at the top of pay for our area too.

Where in the country are you located?

[Anonymous]

Dod engineering and cyber. With clearances and certs. Lots of openings and they are real. (Company I work for is hiring). But no remote options.

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The jobs are at the restaurants and other places that you would rather cherry pick or exclude.

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Anonymous wrote:Home health aide!! There are so many old people who want to age in their homes and not move to assisted living, and that number is only going to increase in the future.

+1! We have been searching for this for my mom. So many home health care agencies hire illegal immigrants because most citizens don’t want to do this job for the pay. It’s a mess!

Fixed it for you. For the right money, I'd happily take care of your mom, and I'd be great at it. But it's hard work, often with odd hours, and anybody you'd trust is also qualified to do something else that pays at least as well.

We were paying $35 an hour, legal, for home health caregivers for Mom on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. They drove her around, prepared meals, and walked with her (several miles a day.)

I assume you are paying that to a company, I bet the actual worker is getting $20 per hour or less.

They might be getting that rate of pay, but they are employed, which puts them way ahead anyone who is unemployed, no matter how credentialed they are.

This is the core of the issue - jobs most definitely exist, but many people won't deign to take them because of the lack of WFH, the low pay, the lack of prestige, or the perceived/real onerous character of the work. But preferring to be unemployed to feeling underemployed is a choice, and does not mean jobs are not there. Choosing unemployment over underemployment is not at all the same as "but there are no jobs!". You may be able to say you can't find a job you want or like, but that's different.

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Everyone i know who is looking for a job and can't find one "needs" WFH. That well is totally dry. They are willing to take a big pay cut as long as they don't have to actually go in. I know multiple lab scientists (my job) who are trying to do "medical billing" etc at less than half the pay because it's from home. The whole world is fighting over those jobs.
All the unfilled jobs are those that must be done in person.

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People actively looking = there are no jobs; BLS report +50k yay (will revise to minus 50k later; employment surveys 40% of job ads are fake; consumer sentiment in the toilet
People not looking = look at job ads, i hear xyz might be hiring

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Property Management, I realize this might not be for everyone, but we can't find competent people that will stay for more than 2 months. My company owns and operates apartment communities (we are not in the DMV, in a much lower COL area) and we recently revamped our whole pay structure - Leasing Agents (no experience necessary) went from $17/hour to $25/hour starting, plus commission, with a ton of room for growth. Maintenance techs went from $22/hour to $30/hour starting, Maintenance Supervisors are now $40/hour. Community Managers went from $70k starting to $100k starting. Vacation now starts at 3 weeks instead of 2 and every other vacation band got a week added, plus our salaries are all being adjusted to match the new numbers. And we still can't find people!! We are at the top of pay for our area too.

Where in the country are you located?

We are in the Midwest.

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Anonymous wrote:Home health aide!! There are so many old people who want to age in their homes and not move to assisted living, and that number is only going to increase in the future.

+1! We have been searching for this for my mom. So many home health care agencies hire illegal immigrants because most citizens don’t want to do this job for the pay. It’s a mess!

Fixed it for you. For the right money, I'd happily take care of your mom, and I'd be great at it. But it's hard work, often with odd hours, and anybody you'd trust is also qualified to do something else that pays at least as well.

We were paying $35 an hour, legal, for home health caregivers for Mom on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. They drove her around, prepared meals, and walked with her (several miles a day.)

I assume you are paying that to a company, I bet the actual worker is getting $20 per hour or less.

They might be getting that rate of pay, but they are employed, which puts them way ahead anyone who is unemployed, no matter how credentialed they are.

This is the core of the issue - jobs most definitely exist, but many people won't deign to take them because of the lack of WFH, the low pay, the lack of prestige, or the perceived/real onerous character of the work. But preferring to be unemployed to feeling underemployed is a choice, and does not mean jobs are not there. Choosing unemployment over underemployment is not at all the same as "but there are no jobs!". You may be able to say you can't find a job you want or like, but that's different.

I was simply responding to the PP suggesting there are these $35 per hour home health caregiving jobs and there aren't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dod engineering and cyber. With clearances and certs. Lots of openings and they are real. (Company I work for is hiring). But no remote options.

Same here. Defense industry. Only some of the jobs are remote but not for the engineers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dod engineering and cyber. With clearances and certs. Lots of openings and they are real. (Company I work for is hiring). But no remote options.

Same here. Defense industry. Only some of the jobs are remote but not for the engineers.

Yeah nobody wants to pee in the cup several times a year for the privilege of earning H1b salary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dod engineering and cyber. With clearances and certs. Lots of openings and they are real. (Company I work for is hiring). But no remote options.

Same here. Defense industry. Only some of the jobs are remote but not for the engineers.

Yeah nobody wants to pee in the cup several times a year for the privilege of earning H1b salary

There are no H1B employees at my workplace. US citizenship is a requirement. I’ve never had to pee in a cup. But if you don’t like even the possibility of a drug test, a job requiring a clearance is not for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are MAGA please refrain from propagandist statement that the job market is extraordinarily fantastic. This is about the livelihood of Americans regardless of party affiliation.

Where are the jobs?

Folks please share industry, job title, skillets etc where openings vastly exceed demand.

We know restaurants have been hiring for the past 1000 years. So let's exclude those.

I'm sorry OP but more layoffs are coming in mass.

Many companies have already projected this unfortunately

More than 100 other companies, from Amazon to Nike to Verizon, have filed legally mandated WARN notices about job cuts to come in 2026. I could list them but the list is longer than 100 in reality.

UGH

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dod engineering and cyber. With clearances and certs. Lots of openings and they are real. (Company I work for is hiring). But no remote options.

How do you get clearance without already having a DoD job? I'm a Fed engineer and its impossible to get those jobs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dod engineering and cyber. With clearances and certs. Lots of openings and they are real. (Company I work for is hiring). But no remote options.

Same here. Defense industry. Only some of the jobs are remote but not for the engineers.

Yeah nobody wants to pee in the cup several times a year for the privilege of earning H1b salary

There are no H1B employees at my workplace. US citizenship is a requirement. I’ve never had to pee in a cup. But if you don’t like even the possibility of a drug test, a job requiring a clearance is not for you.

DoD salaries generally top out at $300k unless you are BD. That's peanuts for tech, ie, H1B salary.