Need a job!

The title says it all! I need a job.  But I need a job that will pay more than minimum wage and doesn't involve wearing a paper hat and a name tag.  Looking for jobs here in Vegas is crap.  You can look on Craigslist but 99% of the posting are scams.  I can spend hours looking thru CL and find one that sounds promising but the lister doesn't post a phone number to call or fax, or a email.  I get paranoid with emailing my resume to any emails now for fear of spammers. 

I had a very hard time looking for work when I was layed off in 2008 from my job of over six years.  Vegas had and STILL has one of the highest unemployment rate in the nation.  After a year of nothing I moved to Nebraska.  Unemployment in Nebraska was very low (5%) compared to Nevada (15% in 2009).  I also had friends still living in Lincoln so I had a place to crash while job hunting. 

I found work pretty fast in Lincoln.  I started doing construction, then I was hired on at a Chevy dealership as a service writer.  That job sucked balls; the people I worked WITH were great.  The people I worked FOR were backstabbing dicks.  I quit that job after 10 months of not getting paid.  Found work at a lumber yard sanding and staining/painting doors and window frames.  That job paid me just enough to pay my bills but was fun cause of all the hard labor involved.  I liked working with my hands and having a finished product at the end of the day felt good.  They let me go from that job after 3 months on some crap excuses.  So after all the jobs and so other BS I was pretty much on the skids.  I missed my kid more everyday and said "fuck it" and sold/gave away anything that wouldn't fit in my GMC Jimmy and with help of my kid's mom and my mom I drove all the way back to Vegas to start over AGAIN.

Luckly I found a job pretty fast in Vegas.  It paid better than I thought I would be able to get but was the worst organized place to work at and just stressed me out to no end.  But I wasn't going to quit cause of that.  After eight months I was called by a staffing agency to interview for a job at another place.  I wasn't actively looking for another job; they found a old resume on careerbuilder.  They told me about the position, I went down to their office and filled out the paper work and set up a appointment to interview with the business offering the job.  I thought it wouldn't hurt to check out all my options?  The pay would be almost the same but the hours were far better; no weekends.  I liked what the other place had to offer, I interviewed with them three times before I was offered the job.  I did have one concern that I voiced to my future boss.  I wasn't excited to be hired thru a staffing agency.  My thought was that if I'm a "temp to hire" it would be easier to let me go if they didn't like for some stupid reason.  If they hired me without the staffing firm they would be more invested with me.  My future boss was cool and understood.  I'm thinking of leaving a job that pays pretty well for job in a field I really didn't have any experience in that pays about the same with no guarantees that it'll work out.  I mulled over this for a couple days then decided to go with it.  Fortune favors the brave, right? 

After 3 months of things going pretty well, they decide that I'm not a good fit for the company and let me go.  I should have listened to my gut and stayed in the hell hole I was in instead of going to see if the grass is greener on the other side.  I was vexed but I wasn't entirely pissed.  I was starting to feel the company wasn't a good place for me either, but wasn't going to quit. 

*sigh* oh well...