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But....despite what the government did, it's not impossible to get a job.

I was able to get a job during an equally bad economic time: the early 1980s. I guess the difference, really, is that it takes longer to get hired onto a job these days--more interviews!

If you give up on getting a job, the game is lost.

I don't see cynicism in what I advocate. Maybe there's a little "impracticality."

But one cannot give up, despite what the government did or didn't do.

No offense, but I'm sure that most people do know that to get jobs, you have to go out and apply for them. The discouragement sets in after countless rejections, and when the people who are being paid to help you won't give you any advice other than "try applying for jobs!".

I suppose.....but there's no other way in most cases.

These days, EVERYBODY gets rejected. I wish I knew how to be more "artful" in how NOT to get a resume thrown away. Where I work, about 200 people applied for two places.

It's not always like that...but it could be like that.

When I was looking for my second job, my resume was thrown in the trash heap consistently for months. Then, about six months after I started looking, out of the blue, someone called. I got the job the same day. It could happen like that sometimes. You have to take these opportunities.

I got my first job because I was fortunate enough to know somebody who reads the New York Times every day. She saw an ad. She was nice enough to recommend it to me. I almost didn't go (I was friggin' scared!! !! !) But I went--and I got the job! It turned out to be a Civil Service job! I got lucky! I'm still at this job today. The interview happened on October 30th, 1980. I started November 3rd.

To me, getting a job is a matter of luck--being in the "right place at the right time." If you are discouraged from looking because of rejections, you don't place yourself in the position to be at "the right place at the right time."

If I should lose my job, I'd be out on the street (that's my fault--I don't have enough savings).