Reply #94: I was unemployed for 17 months before going back to college.

[wickerwoman]

Still can't find a part-time job that fits around my schedule.

I didn't qualify for unemployment insurance because my last job was in another country and I quit (the week before the financial collapse- how's that for timing?) My new job offer fell through so I was completely screwed.

I applied to easily more than a thousand places, including schools, software companies, publishing companies, grocery stores, the city parks department, UPS over Christmas, temping, data entry, coffee shops, fast food... no joy anywhere. I was also willing to relocate anywhere with a job.

I had 21 job interviews mostly in the first few months when companies weren't hiring but at least tried to pretend that they hadn't wasted your time with the advertisement. From Feb last year until Feb this year, I sent in 600-700 applications with only 1 interview offer (temping for UPS- they interviewed 400 people for one part-time slot and while they advertised it at $11.50/hr when we got to the interview they said it was really $8.50. I still tried to get the job and still didn't.) And that was in Seattle where the situation was supposedly not so desperate.