If you're applying to everything, you have a problem. That's almost like saying you're equally good at everything, and if you're equally good at everything, chances are it's not that you're equally awesome at everything.

What I'm saying is, you need to specialize. If you want to be a teacher, you need to have taught. In the unlikely event you want to be a telemarketer, demonstrate public speaking or an orientation toward service. But if your resume is written for everything, or is a hodge-podge, that doesn't look very desirable.

Pick something you could realistically do and decide what steps you're going to take to become attractive in that area. This could involve volunteering or it could involve physically getting out and talking to people who work in that profession. It could also mean starting a blog or doing something entrepreneurial.

The subtext of your post is that you deserve a job and getting rejected, and especially not hearing back from people, is an insult to you. The world does not actually owe you a job. There are millions of unemployed people in this and every country. For better or worse, it's on you to convince someone that you're valuable enough to pay for your service. It also sounds like you think you're above a job at McDonalds. Well, maybe you're not above it. These are strangers who don't owe you anything, so have humility in your attitude and interactions. You're the one asking for something, after all.

So my concrete advice:

- Specialize. Then specialize some more.
- Be humble. You're the one asking for stuff.
- Don't expect interactions. It's not really standard for you to get rejection letters and you shouldn't be surprised if you don't. It's polite for them to send you one but, again, they don't owe it to you.
- Think about what the hiring individual wants, not what you want. Nobody much cares what you want, people care about what they want.
- Don't be too hard on yourself. Most everyone is unemployed at different times. If you keep at it, you'll find a job eventually.
- Solicit feedback on your resume and cover letters. Accept feedback even if it's critical.

If you send me your resume or CV I'll take a look at it. Message me with a link to your resume or CV hosted somewhere. All the best to you, I know job searches are very tough mentally, physically, and emotionally.

Be patient. It is hard for ANYONE to get a job these days. It takes a long time, and a lot of searching. Disabled people are going to have an even rougher time finding a job. Just keep at it, though, and eventually something will come.

How much vision, if any, do you have? What qualifications and skills do you have?

Me too. I'm sighted, with years of experience, and I keep getting passed over.

But whatever you do, don't sound desperate. Apparently, "I'd like to have a steady income so I can maintain food and shelter" is a lame reason for wanting a job.

Hi there,

Finding a good job is one of the most difficult aspects of being blind. There is a lot of discrimination out there in the job market. These days businesses get loads of resumes from lots of super qualified people, and employers have to find ways of sorting through the candidates to narrow the field. The ways employers do this can be arbitrary and unfair at the best of times, and people with disabilities have huge targets on our backs. You might have a chance if your resume sticks out above the rest in a good way, if you get someone who is open minded, willing to give you a chance, or if your applying for a niche job with fewer applicants.

A few random thoughts...

There is a huge growing problem in postindustrial countries where there are not enough good paying jobs for less educated people; just look at the political conversations taking place in America, Cole workers, people worried about other people taking their jobs, etc. Blind people without higher education have always had the deck stacked against them, but this is even more the case in our current climate. I don't know how much education you have, but this could be part of your problem. I believe that vocational rehabilitation in the United States will sometimes help you go to college, so if you don't at least have a four\-year degree you might want to look into that.

Even with education getting a good job is no sure thing. I have a blind friend who is super amazing; she is the biggest go getter I have ever seen, applying for hundreds of jobs, reaching out to companies that are not even hiring, just to make connections for when they do have job openings. She takes notes on interviews she gives and works on what she could have done better. She lives in NYC and has a vast network of people. She went back to school and got her masters, but she is still not having any luck, while she is watching everyone from her class get jobs. On the other hand, I got pretty lucky. I was not so amazing at applying for loads of jobs etc. and I only have a bachelor's degree; I really just got lucky with finding my current job. The only reason I'm bringing up my experience and my friend's experience is to point out how much luck and other unfair aspects go into finding a job. She deserves a job much more than I do.

One last thing, a lot of blind people end up working in the blindness field. This is one other difference between my situation and my friend's situation. for her, it is very important to get a job that has nothing to do with blindness. On the other hand, I test accessibility for a university, and my dream job would be to teach assistive technology. My wife, who has a master’s degree and a law degree, spent several years looking for mainstream jobs, only to end up taking a job working as the children's assistive technology expert for our state. There is nothing at all wrong with blind people working in the blindness field, however, it is a shame that some people have to turn to it for work because they could not do what they wanted.

So, look into further education/training/experience if you can, make connections, and consider the blindness field.

Above all, hang in there and remember that what you’re going through is a shared experience had by millions of people, it has nothing to do with your value has a person.

1. How do you know that they are throwing it in the trash and/or deleting it.

2. Why would you want a job in which the employer was forced to hire you?

PM me your resume and I'll take a look and see what's going wrong.

There's no jobs anymore, your only real option is to be self employed. Practically the same for non disabled people too. Hence why so many people with viable degrees are starting to go live on farms in the USA instead of fruitlessly continuing to look for work, there's no jobs left. and they're not coming back, not with the current progress of automation. As for what remains it's cheaper for an employer to hire a non disabled person over a disabled person with the same level of skill since they don't need to provide anything extra to non disabled people. So you either gotta be worth the extra cost or not be disabled. Your best bet is probably to get involved in alternative economies, crypto currencies, community exchange networks, time banks, etc as they can mean the difference between life and death. But more than anything else make sure you're doing something you love because life is too short and stupid to piss away working for others to survive when you're just gonna die anyways.

::EDIT::
Places I know of that you can get started are:
steemit.com - a blogsite that uses the Steem crypto currency
yours.org - Another blogsite that uses Bitcoin Cash micropayments
Minds.com - same as above from what I understand.
Patreon.com - online "busking" service
Liberapay.com - a free and open source version of Patreon that is smaller but overall better thanks to its lack of service charges.
openbazaar.org/ - a free and open source virtual storefront protocol where you can buy and sell whatever you want with an increasing variety of crypto currencies.
If you're a programmer then just start a project and start doing regular dev updates on sites like this to build a portfolio and reputation. If you really want to work for someone else after that then you'd have a decent history to show for it, otherwise you are perfectly capable of creating your own wealth and livbing off of it if you're willing to put the work in to build yourself up. These sights are part of the "gifting economy" which is closely related to but not the same as the "sharing economy" which are two successful competing/complementary economic models to the mainstream model. They are also where a lot of the money is these days.

Have you tried NIB's $1? They also do occasional career fairs.

Hey so where are you located, and what is your skill set? If you give us an idea of where you are and what you can do, folks who read this thread might be able to give you some leads.