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I have repeatedly experienced the boomer fever dream of walking into a business with a smile and a firm handshake and walking out employed and folks, the one weird trick is: small, popular national park-adjacent but remote towns everywhere's so desperate to hire people since the local unemployment rate is like -25% that they're as willing to take risks on unknown people as your demented grandparents think every business in your midwest hometown is, and though they still won't offer to pay you decently upfront because of ~the experience of being here~ they pretty much all have some way of making stuff work out reasonably as long as you realise you have bargaining power. I have a house that I live in, alone, for like $200 a month, along with an immigration tickbox allowing me to be in canada instead of the UK at brexit o'clock, because the alternative is that I leave and go to one of the other jobs I could be doing and the business falls apart for six months, and I'm a stupid loser nerd who never did anything useful in my life except get 80% of the way through a university degree and then quit because of sadbrains. if you have actual skills or experience doing anything at all, oh boy it is not for everyone, you'll have a better time if you're young and of a wandery sort of mindset. the visitors are generally horrible and you'll hate their guts. you will want to have a car and at least a bit of money saved up ahead of time, moving isn't free. it could all come crashing down if 2008 happens again. but, it beats the hell out of answering phones in a depressing brexit call center until the baked bean riots start also houses in most of these places cost like a million dollars so you can't stay there forever. at least you can go back to wherever you came from with some money in the bank though. (this is in canada idk how applicable it is to the US. presumably only particular places, might have to go to alaska or montana or something like you have to go to alberta or BC here) also second the 'moderate lie' advice. I personally did not but wish I had because like 20% of the jobs I've ever had ever checked anything at all and it cost me 5 years of being unemployed and spending every penny I had just to stay alive, which I don't recommend
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