What were jobs in the southern areas of the 1930's like?

Question

How was the farming and other jobs how many people were without a job?

Answer 1

In the latter half of the 1930s the southern plains were devastated by drought, wind erosion, and great dust storms. Some of the storms rolled far eastward, darkening skies all the way to the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. The areas most severely affected were western Texas, eastern New Mexico, the Oklahoma Panhandle, western Kansas, and eastern Colorado. This ecological and economic disaster and the region where it happened came to be known as the Dust Bowl.
Repeatedly in those years dirt and sand destroyed crops, property, and mental and physical health.
As the agricultural base of the region was buried under dust, extreme hardship loomed over the southern plains.
In 1934 $525 million was distributed to cattlemen for emergency feed loans and as payment for some of their starving stock; farmers were provided with public jobs such as building ponds and reservoirs or planting shelter-belts of trees. Seed loans were provided for new crops, and farmers were paid to plow lines of high ridges against the wind.

Answer 2

My family left Oklahoma is 1935 and eventually settled in Washington in 1951. My Grandad had been a carpenter before the Dust bowl but by 1950 he was glad to pick apples. 20 years later he had made over $1,000,000 in real estate and construction. Viva la "Great American Dream"!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl