Where do you live? In my small Canadian city, IT jobs don't pop up all the time. Good ones require 5+ years of experience. There's a local college program called BIT that everyone hires developers, sysadmins, DBAs, and networking grads. If you hustled, connected with teachers, you got a job. It also depends on hiring cycles. Some years there are lots of jobs due to retirements. In other years there's nothing.

I'm in Help Desk for a school after being laid off from a tech company. All of my colleagues have been there for 5-25 years. At the tech company, I was a jack of all trades but did a lot of networking. Ironically I make more doing Help Desk with less stress at the school.