1. I don’t have a car/a phone/a fax/a pager/a computer/an alarm clock.
2. I don’t have any family here (or, where the jobs are located).
3. Anybody could do that job; I want something challenging.
4. It can’t be done.
5. I’m waiting until the kids get out of school (or, back in school, or until they graduate from school).
6. I don’t drive on the freeway/at night/in that neighborhood/ in ice and snow/ on narrow roads/out of my part of town.
7. I’ve got 12 weeks of unemployment benefits left, and if I don’t use them I lose them.
8. I’m not strong enough.
9. I’m not a morning person.
10. I’m too fat (or, thin).
11. They always want a drug test, and I’m not going to give them the satisfaction. 86. All they have are dead-end jobs, with no hope for quick advancement to upper management.
12. I’m too old (or, too young) to find work.
13. I don’t use public restrooms.
14. The boss will start talking some trash, and I’ll lose my temper and get fired again, so why bother?
15. I don’t know how to look for work.
16. The tires on my car are bald.
17. The weather is too hot (or, too cold).
18. I can’t stand (or, sit, or walk, or lay down) for long periods of time. And I don’t like talking on the phone, using computers, or meeting people or cats . . . , etc., etc., etc.
19. It’s too late in the day (or, the season, or the year, or in my life) to find a job now.
20. I can’t stand the smell of plastic (or, bus exhaust, or flowers, or machine oil,or food, or people).
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Those excuses are just so common. There is always an excuse to not do something that you don’t want to do.