30M, Unemployed over 3 years, graduated top of class with honours, how do I deal with the hopelessness of the current IT job market?

Hey everyone,

I'm not sure where to go with this post. I will write a bit of backstory. This is going to be a long one but I assure you, it will somehow feel familiar to many who are enduring a rather harsh and difficult job search in Canada.

30M from Canada, living extremely rural with no transportation (public/friends/family/carpool not available either, its that rural).
I am locked to only full time permanently remote jobs with almost no in person interaction at all. I have no ability or funds to relocate. I also don't drive and am medically unable to get a drivers permit so that's not an option.

In 2020 I graduated with honours in Computer Science with a specialization in Network Infrastructure. Have obtained many Microsoft and Cisco Networking certifications. Soon after I graduated I got a nice paying job and everything was looking fine. Then COVID happened and I lost my job. Not only my job but also my home that I had just moved into the same month. I was forced to move back in with family in 2022 and have been unemployed since March 2022.

Seeing that the IT sector wasn't working out I decided to go into Insurance, I obtained licensing and certification to be an insurance broker in every single Canadian province (Including Quebec which is notoriously difficult to obtain). I worked insurance for a bit but that job was also lost due to market compression caused by COVID. I hate to blame everything on something that isn't me.. so lets talk about what I have tried.

Earning an income is a basic necessity so I tried to seek help with career planning and counselling. I spent a lot of time and effort working on myself and my resume. I branched out and tried to go for basically any job, any industry, any level of comfort because at this point, I need any job I can take. I applied to anything from fast food, labour, factory, processing plants, services... ect. During this time I also volunteered a lot (I still do volunteer a lot to this day.)

This ultimately got me nowhere. I sent thousands upon thousands of applications, a mix of walk-in and fill up an application in person, and online applications.

At this point, I am rather sick of people coming to me and giving me the same boatload of advice (like.. try something different, be open to different opportunities, look at different paths, do some volunteer work, mix up your routine and activities, go make more friend groups and contacts..). It clearly hasn't worked for me.

Please try to be understanding and don't laugh at my situation. I've never used this subreddit before and I am not an frequent user of this platform.

How does one not lose hope in my situation?
I don't use drugs or alcohol, I'm a fairly social person and I do my absolute best to care for those around me and in my community.
I feel like I've done everything that I was told to do while I was growing up (get education, treat everyone equal ect..) and yet somehow I have ended up in more debt and in an even more dire housing situation than the guys who paid no attention in class and abused substances to cope with their day to day life?
What would you suggest I can do from now on?