**Broomstick **and I both live in Northwest Indiana. There are only two major papers in this area - The Hammond Times and the Gary Post-Tribune. There are a handful of local town papers, but they are not much more than ads and pictures of the Rotary Club.
I obviously can’t scan and post the actual classifieds for our local papers, but their jobs sections are quite large. I linked to their websites - unfortunately, because of an attempt to control costs, they are both hooked up with larger web companies. The Post-Tribune is with the Chicago Sun Times, and the Times has now apparently joined the Yahoo jobs site.
The Times jobs I linked to are for one town in the area - Munster. You can search by zip code for others. I tried Gary as well, and there were two pages worth of jobs.
The Post-Tribune has always had a crappy website, but I note that they have seven “new” jobs posted, and it is my understanding those run by the day. So, today, seven new jobs were added to their job database.
As I said, the actual classified job section is big, and even bigger on “employment” day, which I believe is Wednesday.
**Broomstick **has had a crappy run of luck, and I appreciate her position. However, I am always wondering about those who say “There are no jobs” and it turns out there are many jobs, just not ones that they want or like. I was not taught that jobs need to conform to my wants and needs, but that I must change to meet the limits of the job.