. >> maybe the most optimistic job seeker we found was rodney watson.e rode the solano county building bloom a few years back. >> at one point i was making maybe over $2,000 a month and just like that it was gone. >> he's finishing a edd green construction training course. >> over 200 jobs available now. hopefully i can get into it and have me a job pretty soon. >> it seems like green jobs are not what people are focused in on at this moment. that's hour new dot-com. >> many americans are finding there's too you foo many jobs right now. do you ever give up hope? >> you can't. i'm a father. got na brush yourself -- gotta brush yourself off and get back up. >> difficult to accept but maybe the only ways to survive. >>> stocks made modest gains today as investors geared up for a packed week of corporate earnings reports. [ closing bell ] >> volume was light on wall street as wall street hunkered down for the reports due out this week. the dow, 66 points. for more financial and consumer news, go to ktvu.com. >>> an iranian scientist is alleging that the u.s