The Skeevy Wonders of Online Job Hunting

So after two years of unemployment, I've decided it's time to cast the net a little bit wider and seek anything I'm remotely qualified for even if it isn't quite what I had in mind. My principal source for job listings has been Craigslist, which is where I've gotten to at least the interview stage of things more often than any other job site.

Craigslist started charging a nominal fee for job postings in Atlanta, which cuts down on the spammy and scammy listings in theory, but doesn't block them out completely in practice. I've learned already that, for example, if the listing makes you cut and paste the email address to respond to instead of using the option to send an email directly from the ad, you'll find that the job magically mutates from, say, answering phones and filing at a print shop (in the ad) to receiving and processing payments for online auctions (in the email response.)

This one was probably more of a waste of my time than usual, but it amused me in its way.

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*sigh* So does anybody know of any REAL jobs out there that I could do?