a)Do something hard. Most people will pass them over but if you choose to take on a less glamourous, lower paying job (i.e. the bottom, even if it's only kinda related to what you really want to do) you will come out of it a better person, with better experience, with more options afterwards than if you simply sat around waiting for your dream job.

I'm sorry, but the problem isn't that people are sitting around waiting for a dream job and not getting it. The problem is that a lot of younger Redditors (teens, maybe early 20s) are having trouble finding any job, period. As someone who went through this very issue for about 4 years, I can attest to the fact that I would have taken a job doing damn near anything. The problem is, a lot of places simply will not hire the high school student with zero job experience and restrictive schedule requirements. Why would you hire someone that's only going to be able to be around at certain times, for a certain number of hours a week, over someone who could potentially be available at more varied hours with at least a modicum of prior experience?

b)Be a better person. Stop complaining, stop being so snarky, stop eating and drinking because you're bored, stop being cynical. Otherwise no one will ever take you seriously.

c)aka on the other hand... Be less serious (especially at job interviews). Talk to your potential new boss as if they were an actual fellow human being. When you are forced into a new environment and expected to surpass imagined expectations of yourself you will generally fail; it is an impossible task. Realistically, most people can be trained to do most entry-level tasks fairly easily. The really difficult things come later, when your boss knows he can actually trust you with difficult/sensitive tasks. The point of the interview is to ascertain whether or not you are interested enough in the subject to follow through to that point and if you are an amiable enough person to be around during and beyond that period. So be yourself.

Both of these points really tend to assume that you're able to get an interview in the first place. As I said at the end of my previous point, people who aren't going to be able to work many hours, who might well quit at the end of summer/winter break, and who have zero experience, are pretty much at the bottom of the priority list for people who actually get interviews. At least in my case, I applied for various jobs every summer in a dozen different places - and over three years, I lucked out and got one interview (for a job I didn't actually get). Does that mean I'm just a shitty person because I didn't get a job for three years?