Sorry to hear about the job troubles. With restaurant experience, you might consider looking into these places for employment: nursing homes/ care facilities, school districts (go to their websites and look at personnel or H&R), hospitals (call or go online to their human resource departments), and bed & breakfasts.

My brother-in-law had restaurant experience, but got a job at nursing home with set hours, vacation and benefits. Not super exciting, but its a steady 40 hour / week income.

Maybe you could talk to a local pet store and see if you could swap services. Maybe you could work for a couple hours a week in exchange for feeder rats or something under the table, instead of a paycheck. Better yet, maybe you could get hired on at one. You definitely know a lot about snakes That would be a bonus for them!

Hope this helps!