What does it take to get a State job (any job) in Georgia?

A nice lady suggested I look into State jobs...In the past 6 years, I have applied for 46 jobs (it seemed like there were more...one loses track). Out of those 46 jobs I think I got three interviews.

I must have applied for at least 200 hundred other jobs, ranging from no degree required or HS/GED.

Every day, I visit the State Jobs Site, the Georgia Department of Labor Site, Craigslist, and individual agency/company/industry sites...I use the newspaper want ads, I exhausted my contacts a long time ago...I use the Fed's Site...Monster, Career yadda yadda yadda...when I had a car I looked for signs in windows... It is certainly not for trying that I haven't found a job. The economy sucks, people are continuing to move out of the area, teachers are being let go, businesses are closing at a accelerated rate. I am waiting for the big black dust clouds to start blowing in.

I just feel like listing the 46 State jobs I have applied for, for fun.
They keep a list of them just to let you know what a big loser you are.

Note: Below are State of Georgia jobs for which you have applied in the past. The applications having the Screening Type of Resume Review, although in history, are still available to State agency recruiters for consideration and review. In contrast, the applications for the Screening Types of both Qualifications Assessment and Scored Evaluation are not available to recruiters as the evaluation or score has expired.

My Jobs History list contains 46 job(s).
Job Title Screening Type Last Action

Administrative Assistant 427-60104ba [Details] Resume Review 3/11/2005

Administrative Specialist 1 427-60011ab [Details] Resume Review 9/24/2003

Child Support Enforcement Supe 427-14402ae [Details] Resume Review 2/18/2004

Child Support Services Agent 2 427-14401cs [Details] Resume Review 10/1/2008

Child Support Services Agent 2 427-14401ct [Details] Resume Review 10/1/2008

Clerk 2, General 371-60108bw [Details] Resume Review 11/1/2006

Clerk 2, General 461-60108cb [Details] Resume Review 10/1/2008

Communicable Disease Spec 128-70502am [Details] Resume Review 4/23/2004

Communicable Disease Specialis 427-70502ay [Details] Resume Review 9/11/2003

Community Resource Coordinator 364-70209au [Details] Qualifications Assessment 9/15/2004

Crime Victim Compensation Spec 471-14686ac [Details] Resume Review 12/4/2003

DFCS Medicaid Eligibility Spec 127-14405jb [Details] Resume Review 11/1/2006

District Liaison/PHSO Program 427-70002gv [Details] Resume Review 3/11/2005

Family Independence Case Mgr 1 127-14412yl [Details] Resume Review 11/1/2006

Family Independence Case Mgr 1 127-14412wj [Details] Resume Review 3/3/2006

Family Independence Case Mgr 1 127-14412xx [Details] Resume Review 11/1/2006

Family Independence Case Mgr 1 127-14412nl [Details] Resume Review 8/10/2004

HR Consultant 2 (GTA) 980-06016aa [Details] Resume Review 2/18/2004

Instructor 2 (DJJ) 461-11403ax [Details] Qualifications Assessment 9/14/2006

Instructor 2 (DJJ) 461-11403al [Details] Resume Review 11/4/2003

Juvenile Correctional Officer 461-17246df [Details] Resume Review 1/27/2004

Juvenile Probation/Parole Spec 461-17422bg [Details] Qualifications Assessment 8/2/2006

Juvenile Probation/Parole Spec 461-17423aa [Details] Scored Evaluation 10/16/2009

Legislative Information Specia 430-95513aa [Details] Resume Review 11/4/2003

ORS Standards Surveyor- Atlant 427-19619bc [Details] Resume Review 2/18/2004

ORS Standards Surveyor- Gaines 427-19619bd [Details] Resume Review 8/10/2004

PAROLE OFFICER 465-17527aa [Details] Scored Evaluation 10/16/2009

Personal Advocate 427-14008an [Details] Resume Review 10/1/2008

PH Educator 128-70701cc [Details] Resume Review 12/30/2005

Pre-Release Coordinator 467-14102aa [Details] Resume Review 12/4/2003

PROBATION OFFICER I/II 467-17502aa [Details] Scored Evaluation 10/16/2009

Program Assistant (DHR) 427-60112uw [Details] Resume Review 3/3/2006

Social Serv Tech 2 371-70923cf [Details] Resume Review 12/31/2003

Social Serv Tech 2 371-70923dr [Details] Qualifications Assessment 6/20/2007

Social Serv Tech 3 364-70922au [Details] Qualifications Assessment 6/15/2004

Social Serv Tech 3 364-70922bk [Details] Qualifications Assessment 7/5/2006

Social Service Technician 3 364-70922bn [Details] Qualifications Assessment 9/27/2006

Social Services Tech 1, Child 369-70924bl [Details] Resume Review 4/23/2004

Social Services Tech 3 364-70922aw [Details] Qualifications Assessment 12/15/2004

Social Services Tech 3 371-70922ai [Details] Resume Review 9/23/2003

Staff Develop/Trng Coord 2 461-16911ad [Details] Resume Review 11/1/2006

Staff Development/Training Coo 440-16911ab [Details] Resume Review 3/11/2005

Teacher SWD-10202aa [Details] Qualifications Assessment 2/9/2004

Teacher (DHR) 427-10204an [Details] Resume Review 11/1/2006

Veteran's Benefits Counselor 488-14447ay [Details] Resume Review 11/11/2003

Veteran's Benefits Counselor 488-14447ca [Details] Qualifications Assessment 12/21/2006

G-d

I believe in G-d

I want that made understood.

I have had many lapses of my Faith over the years.

I am struggling right now.

Here is what I don't understand...my inability to find a job. I moved back to my mother's in order to help her out with my sister. I thought that would take about a school year and then I would go back to Nevada or somewhere and reclaim my life. Over six years later, I have not been able to find a full-time job (save the unfortunate experience of the sleep lab).

The New Teacher Project screwed me over when I had been working for them and doing the job of the of the manager when she quit - and then applied for and interviewed and was rejected, and still had to do the job until I managed to grow a pair and quit. I allowed myself to be used.

It took almost 6 months to find another job after that, and I loved working for the Psychologist...and then he came in one day and announced that he was going to retire...the end of the month.

I took the sleep lab job out of sheer desperation. It made me sick, and it has taken almost 8 months to reset my internal clock.

I have applied and applied and sent resume after resume to no avail. The competition for jobs here is incredible.

I take care of my sister as best I can. Doctor appointments, dentist, eye doctor, see that she is clothed, fed, entertained (as best I can these days), see that she gets to her day care.

I try to help out with mom...mostly by staying out of her way...but trying to keep the house and yard as tidy as possible. Clean is no longer a big priority with me, as my energy is waning. So, I settle for tidy.

I have no transportation...Alex wrecked my car and neither one of us have the cash to repair it and both of us are up to our throats in credit card debt.

Alex has just learned that the transmission in his car needs to be replaced (he already had it reworked or whatever the phrasing is) and neither of us have the money for that.

We have found a mechanic who has agreed to rig up something for my Jeep that will at least make it street-legal and driveable for a time.

Alex's work is about 30 or so miles away from here (round-trip would be 60 something miles per day) when he is in rehearsal that means a trip into the city and that means another 25 miles from his work and from here...I'm tired of numbers...I hate numbers...

So, my question is...what am I doing wrong? Is it fair to even think that I should expect G-d to help me when I am such a whiner. Afterall, there are people with no homes, children starving, people sick and dying...my life when compared to those who have nothing seems pretty sweet.

Stephen Fry says something about it being reprehensible to wallow in self-pity...I really don't want to wallow...but here I am...wallow wallow wallow...fester fester fester...loser loser loser.

Why can't I hear G-d...what am I doing wrong?