Hello, I live in Beaverton and I’ve been working in the service industry for a few years and I’ve been trained in every FOH role besides bartending. I only spent two years at a restaurant and then afterwards, for the past couple years I’ve been doing temp shifts where I’d do a lot of catering and I’d also go to restaurants and help out. I was able to get hired with a couple of those catering companies. I also worked at a DV shelter as a shelter support advocate until the end of last year. I’ve been unemployed and getting by through doordash and occasional temp shifts. I can’t do it anymore though, it’s becoming really difficult on my mental health and my car is 30 years old and extremely beat up and can’t handle doordashing anymore either. I’ve applied to at least 300 jobs and most of them have been restaurants in the PDX area. I get compliments on my resume and it’s been looked over and I’ve spoken with managers who say they liked me but went with someone else so I’m not sure what the problem is anymore. I can’t even get hired for positions as low as host, it’s ridiculous. I’m 22 years old and this feels so unbelievably embarrassing and sad. I would have stayed at the shelter but the situation that was going on was really bad that I don’t want to get into, I just had to get out of there. Does anyone have any advice or know of any jobs that are hiring? Before anyone suggests poached, I’ve applied to almost every single poached job listing lol and I’ve emailed a few places but they said they weren’t hiring so I figured emailing/calling is pointless.