Looking for a job in your field can be exhausting and frustrating, especially when it appears that despite your experience, you can't even land an interview.

Sometimes you have to consider work outside of your area of expertise, but that doesn't necessarily mean abandoning what you have learned and spent years cultivating.

There are alternative career paths you can choose that will happily utilize the skills you've honed over the years.

Prime example:

If you have a background as a nurse, or if you have worked intake in a clinical setting, then while you might not be finding clinical work, your experience with clinical workflows, coupled with your use of electronic medical/health records (EMR/EHR) makes you a prime candidate to work for one of the many software companies developing EMH/EHR software as a business analyst or implementation consultant. Once you get experience in that niche field, you can take your experience in business analysis and implementations to almost any software company. And these jobs typically pay pretty well...now you are on a new career trajectory.

There are plenty of job experiences that are applicable within other industries. If you look at what you have done, try to figure out systems that you have used, skills you have that can be suited elsewhere, and then look for jobs that run parallel to your former career.

Good luck!