At the Myrtle Beach Mall, nearly a hundred people applied for jobs.
"It's been three years since I've had a job," says Murrells Inlet resident Joanne Pione. "I'll do anything. I don't mind being a restaurant server."
She's in her early sixties, but her frustrations are shared by people of any age.
It's been almost a year since 21 year-old Webb Maynard's been employed. "I'm looking for anything at this point," he says. "This is not exactly where I saw myself when I was in school."
He says he can't go to school because he's unable to find a job to pay for an education.
The job fair sponsored by the North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce and Goodwill, employers like The Pepsi Bottling Company, Avon, and Pampered Chef were taking applications from job seekers.
The thought of finally finding a job is why Maynard drove from Conway to North Myrtle Beach. "You sit at home and it's really difficult because you feel like the lowest of the low," he says.
But he and Pione have attended job fairs like these before.
"You get really depressed when you can't find a job," says Pione. "Sometimes you hear back. Sometimes you don't, and it's frustrating."
Maynard's frustration builds with the hours he searches for a job. "You put in about 15 hours a day looking for work and nothing pans out," he says. "Especially, with gas prices the way they are. Driving here from my house and back all looking for jobs can get quite expensive."
Pione agrees, "Gas is outrageously expensive, but in order to find a job, you have to go to job interviews and job fairs. You just have to go."
