text: First, know what you want to do.  Nothing else will work without the answer to that question.\n\nThen, try to figure out which employers in your area (or where ever you want to live) pay people to do what you want to do.\n\nA quick and easy way to get an idea of who would be hiring would be to go to Indeed.com (http://www.indeed.com) and do a search on the job title and location you want.  That will show you the employers who have jobs open right now.\n\nApply to the employers who have jobs open now, but DON'T STOP THERE.\n\nCheck your local Yellow Pages both the print and the online versions (see http://www.superpages.com for the online Yellow Pages), to find other similar employers.\n\nIt works like this:  For example, if you want to fix cars, check Indeed.com for "auto mechanic" and your Zip Code.  You'll find several jobs posted from local companies (car dealers, car rental companies, limo services, etc.), and you can apply for those online.  Then, you check your Yellow Pages to see what OTHER car dealers, car rental companies, limo services, etc. you can find that didn't have jobs posted.\n\nThen, contact those other employers directly to see if they have any jon openings.\n\nAND, follow-up with both the online and the off-line job applications to see keep your job search alive and your application in the mind of the person who's filling the job.\n\nGreat sources of job leads:\n\n*  Indeed.com - http://www.indeed.com\nAggregates job postings from several sources including Monster and CareerBuilder as well as employer Websites\n\n*  JobCentral.com - http://www.jobcentral.com\nHas job postings from 200 of the biggest companies in the U.S. as well as many smaller companies.  It's run by the employers, and you apply for the jobs on the employer's Website.\n\n*  Job-Hunt.org - http://www.job-hunt.org\nHas over 7,000 links to employer Websites (by state) and to other career resources, like the state employment offices (by state), colleges and universities, state and local government, federal government, etc.  It also has excellent articles about protecting your privacy, creating an Internet Resume, and bunch of other great information.