<prompt> Human: I love my father so much it pains me to hear him talk the way he does lately. He has been trying to do Lyft and Uber but is apparently making sub-100 dollars a day in an eight hour stretch. I keep telling him to not give up hope but it seems that he doesnt want to hear that from me. Im coming to PF to hopefully get some solid advice that I 24 years old couldnt come up with otherwise. Trying to come up with a list of his payments off the top of my head.. he has around a 1400 mortgage every month, plus a 380 car lease. Plus his insurance and other normal monthly bills. He said he has recently been collecting unemployment but I dont know how much - cant be too much if all three sources still arent cutting it for him. He lives south of Seattle where minimum wage is 11 I believe. I would recommend him any local job doing that but I dont believe that is the right step.Please help us out. Ask any other necessary questions and thank you in advance for the guidance.  <response>: A colleague of mine was laid off a year or two ago, when she was 62. She immediately embarked on an active outreach campaign to everyone she could think of, candidly sharing that she was out of work and seeking advice and potential job openings. She used LinkedIn and Facebook to reach out to friends, friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends to identify opportunities and provide everyone with updates and follow-ups. It was an amazing thing to see. She finally found a great new job -- pretty much a lateral move --after seven or eight months.BOTTOM LINE: She was very, very systematic and aggressive, and followed up on every lead. Looking for a job was her job for several months. The company that hired her was probably as impressed with her self-marketing campaign as they were with her resume. I really had to hand it to her. Finding a new job at 62 is no picnic. 