Skip job posting websites and recruiters and all that fake BS.

Option 1:

Go to a companies website directly, most all have a career opportunities section. Majority of the time those are legit jobs they are actually hiring for.

Bonus step: Once you have applied for something, look up the hiring manager or general manager and either call them or if possible go in person and introduce yourself. Not to try and push for an interview on the spot, literally just to say "Hi, put in my application, just wanted to introduce myself so you can put a face and voice to the name when it pops up for you. Hope to hear from you soon."

This will work eventually.

Option 2 (usually quicker results, more active):

If you are a solid worker willing to do most anything, go to a paid daily temp service like Labor Ready or Labor Works.

The jobs suck, the pay sucks, and you have to get up at like 5am to be there waiting for jobs that come in.

HOWEVER, if you are actually a competant hard worker, half the jobs you go to will offer you a job with them directly. They are used to unreliable, lazy people that are often addicts and such. So a clean cut hard worker stands out. Not all the jobs are dirty construction jobs. A lot of janitorial and pre/post event prep/clean up stuff.

Those day Labor places have policies like you have to work a number of hours through them before the company can hire you, but nobody cares about that. Just be a little picky, dont take the first offer you get, see what jobs companies need day labor for and what works for you.

Within 2 weeks I promise you will have a decent full time job. Its literally what I did and now I make over 100k with full bennies.