With so many people being laid off over the past two years, a lot of them are trying to find any type of jobs that they can even though they are often very overqualified. The amount of people applying for low paying jobs has amazed a lot of people with thousands of applicants showing up for a minimum wage seasonal work that used to just attract some high school teenagers. This article describes a few examples of people who are qualified in one area such as a former computer technician and consultant that are working on the side doing ipod screen repair or iphone screen repair to pay the bills.

The home building and construction business has hit rock bottom with the real estate market being the worst off it has ever been. People are not buying homes but losing them instead and this has significantly hurt those in the home building business. It is not uncommon to see a top construction builder of custom houses trying to do any kind of handyman jobs in order to pay the bills. A lot of them are simply trying to get work by going door to door seeing if anybody needs anything repaired on their home.

Another example of this is the amount of cutbacks school districts have had to make for teachers. What was once considered a secure reliable career has now resulted in tenured teachers without a place to teach for the first time in their lives. Teachers that have masters degrees and a lot of experience are now let go because their salary requirements that are too expensive for the district to be able to pay and this is causing some of them to be paid minimum wage taking care of infants at a child care rather than teaching in their particular field of education.

Americans that were once employed by the automobile industry have also been greatly affected by the economy with a lot of their offices closing down and thousands of lay offs occuring. Some of these workers were expereinced managers of a dealership for a couple of decades making a comfortable salary for themselves and their families and now they are left trying to get the most simple, lowest of paying jobs that are available. It is not uncommon to see former car industry executives now waiting on tables at a restaurant or as the check out person at a retail store to make some money.

Because there are so many people applying for every single job opportunity, that has made it very hard for the younger generation of workers to find any kind of employment. What used to be considered jobs for high school teenagers or recent college grads are now being taken by people with more education and experience taking away the chance for a job for the younger people. One example of this is at the hiring day for seasonal jobs working at King’s Island amusement park in Cincinnati, there were thousands of applicants there applying for low paying seasonal jobs that once attracted mostly teenagers and college students.