Unemployed, in your 30's and living off your parents? Fuck you. Go back to Iowa.

How hard up are you lots of call centers hiring its a shit job mostly but gets you off having an allowance

You realize that when a person that already has a job takes a job, it opens up their previous job, right?

@Never Alone: Couldn't have said it any better.

Really, Showstopper? You're defending the 30-something person living off parental support and whining about other people applying for jobs? Based on the demographic information given, this person sounds like the many, many people I have met that naively pick up and move to Portland without any contacts or jobs because it "seems like a cool place to spend a few years" or "has a cool vibe."

As mentioned above, there are a number of jobs available, but Anon is probably above doing them (s/he would probably say "overqualified"), and who can blame him/her for not doing a menial job to make rent when Mommy and Daddy will continue to subsidize a lifestyle of pretending you're still in college?

Maybe I just have way too many old college friends who have yet to leave adolescence and realize how ridiculous it is to be patching together bartending-on-show-nights gigs while their parents pay for their apartments.

And don't get me wrong: I was a victim of the economy, too. When I graduated I moved back in with my folks and had trouble finding work. But I certainly didn't go online and bitch about other people applying for jobs. Instead, I worked my ass off, got internships and found employment. Hey, the American way!

I'm Jamaican mon. We all have 10 jobs.