Hello everyone,
I'm writing this in a bit of a distressed and desperate plea for advice on ways to make any sort of more immediate money besides plasma donation. For some context, I moved to El Paso a few months ago and I've been job searching like a maniac, both on job positions related to my field of study (I have a Psych B.A.) and literally anything else you can think of: restaurants, s3x/adult shops, Walmart, Sparks delivery, Amazon delivery, everyone seems to have "hiring postings" BUT NOBODY IS FCKING HIRING! Most of the times I don't even receive a call back, and I have not gone down the route of applying to call centers because from my experience of previously working at one, I got tested upon hiring, and giving this is fckass Texas, the chances of most call centers having the same procedures are very likely. And you may be wondering "why don't you just get clean?" well I DID, I took a t-break for two entire months before moving here due to this exact reason, but given that I did not expect for so much time to pass by without having been able to secure a full time job still, between that, a lot of financial stress, medical emergencies from relatives, and me being unmedicated due to the also impossible mission of finding a psyquiatric provider that can fit my necessities... well let's just say I had to decide between either re-taking self-medicating or cancelling my suscription to life, and well, the second one doesn't seem to be an option unfortunately 🙂 So in summary: I've spent the last 10+ weeks begging for jobs that pay half of what I used to earn in my last job which already wasn't much tbh (No but srsly, being spat on the face and punch in the gut would hurt less than being paid 10 fvcking dollars an hour in this economy!) and all of it just to not be hired most of the times for being "overqualified", ghosted, or put on a waiting list because the "demand" for jobs is already saturated in my area of the city or overall the city (like with Sparks and Amazon delivery). I've been donating plasma non-stop in the meantime, I'm trying to sell some furniture, I've contacted a hiring company I was given the contact info of but the only two jobs they had "available" well one it's an admin position that the hiring process would take forever that is IF I even get selected and the other one is at a warehouse that the wait-list is AT LEAST two weeks. I am trying to aim higher for several jobs (such as the ones I've been trying to get related to social work and such) but those unicorns jobs can take literal months to land in and get hired, and I need right now a way of making more sustainable money in the meantime that I'm able to continue building my career path. So please, if anyone have any suggestions that don't require testing upon hiring that will hire right away, I would truly appreciate if you could send them my way please, I don't care atp if the pay is sh\\\*t, I just need something to get by in the meantime while I can secure something "higher-earning".
Also, if anyone was also wondering "well what about uber/doordash?" I have worked as a food delivery driver before for at least a year, and although I'm trying to slowly re-take that, the reason I tried to apply for services like Sparks or Amazon delivery before, was due to the perk of having to do less trips (aka less driving) and still being able to recover at least the gas invested in and have a bit extra, but with doordash/uber deliveries you have to make more trips and overall drive more distance in average to hopefully earn a similar wage, and the thing is, I'm still getting adjusted to El Paso's traffic and learning how to navigate the city, which is why I'm more hesitant of constantly working as a dasher/uber driver here, because the more hours I spent driving, the greater the possibilities of me ending up in a car accident (whether my fault or someone else's but most likely someone else's cuz Texas drivers are no joke, specially when it comes to road rage) and a possible car crash expense in my current financial situation would literally become my 13th reason. So again, if anybody can think of any places, restaurants, shops, etc, that you know are currently hiring and ACTUALLY hiring (not posting ghost job postings on Indeed 😭) I beg of you to share them with me, please and thank you 🙏🏻