What do you can't find something in your field?

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Hey everyone! I've been unemployed for 6 months. Trying to move back to my home state especially because my grandparents aren't doing well. I have been ghosted 4 times in the past 2 months and didn't make the cut for the one interview I got.

I got a Bachelor's in Sociology, focusing on research, another degree in Psych that focused on soc and biopsych (including illnesses, nerves/ CNS, and physical make up of the brain), and a data analyst certificate with prior CIS on my transcript.

I was originally looking at various analysis positions but also started looking at underwriting. I've been told to look at similar options but I can't figure out what those could be. Even tried asking GPT but it just spat out more analyst jobs.

Any suggestions? Open to anything that can get me a place to stay, food in my family's belly, and utilities (not looking to be wealthy.)

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/S ... jor-Salary

I would note that the best paying jobs for persons with a sociology degree are in academia and government.

Vaya con Dios.

Granted my work history is pretty bad, but I think that there are a lot more sociology degree holders than sociology jobs.

While I might be wrong it seems to me like the vast majority of sociology jobs are in research at universities. Those jobs are extremely competitive

How about a job that requires any degree?

Teaching and insurance

Marketing

Restaurant retail sales

Again I am not a career counselor

If I am totally off base, please just ignore my post

Look at state, city and county jobs. They don't advertise well and usually have decent benefits (except pay. Usually on the lower end).
With your background you'd fit several job types including social services and data management.

Surely there must be some type of job in demand in your area.

Here, there are a lot of jobs available in skilled trades, manual labour, restaurants etc. Jobs that require very niche educations typically aren't in high demand and get snapped up by someone who's been biding their time doing some other job waiting for an opening in their field. You may have to do that.

There are a LOT of out of work film industry people here who haven't worked in a year. They're working in restaurants, on farms, repairing cars etc - whatever they can do to pay the bills until their industry picks up pace again.

Take a look around where you are and see what sectors seem to be hiring.

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I'm not a farmer, I don't have a field.

My degree is in urban planning and geography, but GIS is a very small field, and most of the jobs in my area are for oil and gas companies, and are almost always contract positions with little benefits if any.

City governments employ people in those fields, but pay is usually not good, and in Texas, especially in smaller towns and suburban areas, are not hiring in those fields, so they can be able to hire more cops to enforce the Abbott-Patrick-Paxton agenda.

The GIS job outlook is not better in the cities I am considering relocating to (NYC, San Francisco, Seattle), and even if jobs were plentiful, they would not pay enough for me to not be homeless.

Oh, I'd love to do a degree in Sociology, it's my dream!

Good luck finding a job!