Finding employment in Florida is probably the most difficult task anyone faces. Florida has an influx of population ranging in the 300,000 to 400,000 people yearly, and only about half of those people are retirees (who are more a drain on Florida's economy than anything else because they are notoriously cheap. The only market that flourishes is real estate). Probably about a quarter of that influx is people moving to central florida to have their "dream" job of working for Disney World, and a lot of those fail within the first year and end up in poverty.
FLorida is not an easy place to find work. As bad as it is everywhere else, it is worse there. Dusty will find something eventually but if the rest of the country is waiting 6 months for something to come up, it can take longer in Florida. A lot of people who were born and raised there are being forced out by the retirees coming in and jacking up real estate prices, but not really contributing to the rest of the economy in any meaningful way, so it is tough and Dusty is doing an awesome job hanging in there and not giving up. Lesser people might have admitted defeat and left. You Go Girl!

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