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I see this all the time on social media. Folks love to only tell half the story. I straight up linked someone here to our job listing board and they said "Texas? Nope, I'm in Arkansas." And all I can think is "How the fuck are you expecting to find IT work in a tech desert like that?"
I mean, if you're an IT professional, you're going to want IT work. "I see you've got 10 years working in C# and Python on your resume, how does this qualify you to pour cement or turn a wrench?" is the response I'm going to get as a 40-year-old gunning for... what? An apprenticeship in construction? Maybe I can work as a short-order cook? Come on, dude. Somehow I doubt they're offering jobs in my payscale, either.
For $15-25/hr, maybe. The work is sporadic, the hours long, and the A/C of dubious nature.
And telling this to a CPA or a Database Admin or a back office HR manager? There's zero skills crossover here.
I'm more annoyed by the folks who insist they can't find a job, then doggedly insist it needs to be within a 10 minute commute of a Denver suburb. I'm at least a bit more sympathetic if you're underwater on your mortgage and staring down monumental rental costs at your destination (fuck California, entirely). But there are folks who won't budge even in their own fields. This goes way beyond asking an inside sales guy for Microsoft or a rocket scientist at NASA to go pick cotton in Alabama because the job exists.