My friend got laid off from his engineering job and didn’t find another one for over a year. My fiancé is a pilot and hasn’t heard back from the 100+ places he’s applied to across the country. I honestly only got my job as a news producer because my old boss had a connection here, but I applied to about 50 other jobs before that and nothing.
I’ve even encountered jobs that just lie about being remote, because I want a remote job so desperately. I got to one interview when I was looking last time for a job that was posted on a website specifically for remote jobs, and during the interview they were confused why I was asking how the remote worked