With layoffs continuing throughout industries across the board, unemployed residents say their choices for jobs are narrowing. Some say a pizza place like Dominoes might have been a good job to fall back on, but that's not possible anymore.

The Casual Labor office on Galetti Way In Sparks takes in about 50 casual laborers in a day, hoping to help them find work. Lately, they say they're only able to put maybe two or three of those people to work on a given day. And when they can't help, many workers look elsewhere.

Galetti Way has been sort of an "unofficial' pick-up point for day laborers for more than a decade. Men waiting there say recently, the competition for work has tripled.

"Because nobody has jobs. Everybody got laid off. You can see people here you've never seen before," said 43-year-old Tony Valderrama.

He says many workers are uneducated and don't speak English, but they have families to support. He says their skills as construction workers and landscapers have been of little use since the housing market crashed.

Men try to wave down work trucks as they drive by, but say they're lucky if one or two of them stop in an entire day.

"You can see there are no jobs. No one stops to pick us up," said Valderrama.

Others say the environment on Galetti has changed. What used to be a group effort has become a method for survival. 40-year-old father Robert Lopez says men fight over available work, and swarm cars, hoping to be the lucky one chosen for a job.

"I stand out here in the morning and all day for two months. Two hours and no one comes by. No one, nothing," said Lopez.

Others wait eight, even ten hours a day for work, most often going home empty handed. But everyday, they come back, saying they can't afford to miss an opportunity for work, just in case one comes along.

Day laborers say they make very little money, even when they are picked up, usually somewhere between five and ten dollars an hour.

The Casual Labor office is open Mondays through Fridays from 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The office is operated under the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.