I find the unrealistic sob story hilarious quite simply because humans are quite simply lazy. And 95% of the population would rather take the easiest route. Those instances of only finding that single degrading job, nope unreal there is always work it just depends where you actually want to work most people don't want to work as a garbage collector, or a security guard on a night shift or even to go to the agricultural side and work on a farm and/or ranch or even working at a gas station at 3 in the morning. There are jobs out there but most people like to take the path of least resistance.
there is never only one job you can take. That job is the only job that fits into your tunnel vision version of the world.
As people we always have a choice nobody can ever make you do anything except yourself
(Typing on my phone so this is just going to have to stay as a super wall of text)