I sympathize with the waste of time in having interviews that seem like the resumes could have predicted them. Could there be something else in the way?

Is your hair still that amazing color of blue? Is your center of gravity three inches higher than it was last year because of all the earrings, nipple rings, and even tattoo ink above your waist (note the two different words, waist and waste, and note that at some point an employer might care which one you use).

All kiiding aside, and I hope you took it as kidding because you might be feeling desparate, an employer has two weigh options carefully when considering training a person. It could actually seem a bad thing if you are terribly energetic to learn...what if this employer thinks you might work for him for a year, drain him of time learning a trade, then leave to do this work on your own? That is a real and well-founded fear of installation employers.

And okay, you DO need more experience. What are you doing right now? Do you have a job? "Keep your day job," as they say, and see if you can advertise, hell, on craigslist.com or somewhere to pick up a couple of installations so you can put some relelvant work on the resume.

I am with a small company, and when we need someone, we cannot use a person needing training. We need someone who can go out and do a whole job. Assistants can only be hired when there is enough work for the lead guys to be fully employed, and then maybe one helper for two lead guys makes sense. So be sure to interview them over the phone, too: how many people are there in the installation crew? What is the average dollar value of the install (they might not want to tell a beginner; let it go if they don't).

And, as the second paragraph implies, look normal. You have to look okay to send into ANY home in the neighborhoods that he works in. You have to look safe to any bluehair with the money to hire him. In fact, this could be the one thing that kills the possibility once they actually see you.