Searching for employment in clown world

Criteria for the workplace

I am currently looking for a job. I don't want anything special, just a simple 9 to 5 schedule and it doesn't matter if the work is skilled or not, remote or on-site. The salary is not important to me, I have other sources of income, so even if I get the minimum, I will receive almost 900 eu after taxes. My monthly expenses are only about 250-300 eu, so I could save a lot.

Lithuanian companies exposed

A few months passed and nothing happened. I've had quite a few interviews, but most of them had some kind of alien schedule.

Examples:

Teltonika - line operator. One week it is morning shifts, another week night shifts, and another day shifts.
Ermitažas - consultant. 4 days of 10 hours of work, 3 days off.
Unicall - call center support. evening shifts on a rolling schedule including 8 hour weeked days.
Utenos Mėsa - the storekeeper. Day and night shifts.
Lidl - Deputy Manager. Rotating morning and evening shifts. Morning shift starts at 5 am.
UVS Group - cash register technician. Paramedics have the same schedule. Must be alert and ready to run when called upon.

Employment service exposed

So, after a few months, I haven't found anything good. Almost no company could meet my simple criteria of an 8-hours-a-day, five-days-a-week schedule. Therefore, I decided to go to the employment service.

The woman working there, in the youth department of Utena, realized that she could talk to me more openly than the average young man visiting the employment service, so she explained that there are almost no jobs like that in Utena, and offered a very simple way out: look for remote work and lie on your CV.

Of course, not so directly - she used elegant paraphrasing, something something... white lies don't hurt..., but the point was clear even to a deaf person, especially when I asked if she meant exactly that.

I was somewhat surprised to hear such a proposal, because I thought we were a long way from the times of the USSR.

What's next

I left my CV as it really is, I only "improved" my LinkedIn profile to get more offers.

I don't want to talk about it, but I will probably join the job market next week because I found a good offer for my specialty in Utena.

Wish me luck.

EDIT 2023-05-26: The offer pulled through. It has been almost 3 months since I started working as an IT specialist.