There really are a lot of places hiring right now. I live in NC and I am seeing help wanted jobs all over the places. Granted some of these jobs aren't good paying jobs (like restaurant jobs), but they are something if someone needs/wants to work and earn at least a little bit of money. Some of these jobs may have to step it up in regards to the type of benefits they are offering people. Many of them want to work people all types of weird/sporadic shifts and that's not going to cut it with a lot of people these days. These jobs don't offer stable/consistent working hours. I hate jobs that do that, but I have worked jobs like that in the past when I was younger.

Anyway, there is a local restaurant where I live that is offering a line cook position at $40,000 yr/plus meal compensation. Most line cooks in this state don't make anywhere near that much. So that is an example of businesses being highly in need of people are willing to offer higher than usual compensation.  There are also several work from home jobs being offered now that were not being offered some years ago, like when I first graduated from college. So there is more opportunity around for people in general.

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