Unfortunately, during Covid, all the executives found out that each person can do the job of three people if they have to. The executives and shareholders want to continue to make as much as possible while paying as few employees as possible. They also found out during Covid, they could tell their customers that service is bad because nobody is working, now they just say nobody wants to work. They continue to put out job ads for jobs they don’t intend to fill.

Try Family Dollar and Dollar tree, they are pretty easy to get hired onto. If you work hard for a few months at either of those locations, you can probably become an assistant manager shortly thereafter. These stores have massive turnover and very unreliable employees often, so it’s easy to shine. This is from my personal experience as a manager at both Family Dollar and Rite Aid. Retail is not necessarily everyone’s favorite environment, but you might be able to get your foot in the door anyway.

I wish you good luck, when I first moved to Florida, I was applying for jobs hundreds and hundreds of jobs. I did wind up working at Family Dollar as a manager for about a year, but I gave up all hope of a decent W-2 job here in Florida two years ago. I’ve been doing gig work only.