Yeah I volunteer when i get the chance but since getting around is a problem that can get in the way.
As for feedback I do ask and the biggest answer I get from the large companies "Is it is against corporate policy to tell you", from the smaller ones it ranges from them not believing I can get to work on time without a car to the fact that I have not been hired by anyone else in the past four years. Yeah never mind that that last one is a loop that I can't break, that is still a reason given. Despite having good write ups from all my past bosses they assume their is something really wrong with me if I have not been hired lately. That may be the most frustrating one to hear.
Still things could be a whole lot worse, it may not seem it from what I post here some times but i am doing much better then I was last year where some days I literally could not get out of bed, and the unemployment rate is falling. I think it's just my 30th birthday coming up that has me down a little, I always assume when I was a kid but by the time I was this old I would be set in life. I mean my plan was simple, become a history teacher and do some writing on the side but life had a way of getting in the way. I know it's up to me to turn things around and I am working at it and I know things will pick up at some point it's just that some days I feel like Luke in Star Wars "Biggs is right, I am never going to get out of here!"
Still as I said things could be a lot worse so one of the things I am working hard at is always looking on the bright side of life.