What are some good resources for help with career guidance?

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For a start, I can go to my career services at my college. Yes, I graduated from college. As a matter of fact, I have two degrees. The problem is that since graduating many years ago, I have never managed to get beyond entry level. In many cases, I have taken dead end jobs that only offer a paycheck and basic benefits required by law.
I majored in Communications and studied radio and television production. But when it became apparent that I had to look outside of my home base, I just couldn't afford to reach beyond my local area. I commuted to school, lived with my family and it was just enough for me to get through that. I couldn't afford to live in the dorms or get an apartment while I was a student.
So I wound up doing clerical work, hoping that I would see a job opening locally. I worked in retail, manufacturing, doing back office stuff like clerical accounting and retail sales. Something that a high school graduate would do. Later I worked customer service but found that because I was overqualified for that, I would wind up arguing with the customers over the phone.
I have been fired from several jobs. But most of the time I would simply do it until I couldn't stand it anymore and then quit. I have spent long periods not working at all. Then working part time or on call or temporary jobs, moving slowly into a full time job, doing until it became intolerable and then leave.
My resume looks like a jiggsaw puzzle. I did some college teaching, as a sort of assistant to the professor but my job title was Visiting Lecturer. I have done clerical accounting for retail stores, a manufacturing plant, a car dealership. I have done customer service for the phone company, financial services. I have worked retail sales and currently I have two jobs in that, one full time and one part time.
Instead of being able to find a schedule that works for me, my bosses will consistently want the same times and refuse to give me any set schedule. In my full time job, my boss ignores my requests to have a permanent schedule and will rotate it from one week to the next, having me work weekends when he wants to go away, then switching it the next week if his kid has a doctor's appointment. The boss at my part time job will leave me at the bottom of his list, calling me at the last minute to fill in if someone calls out sick. My full time job is 30 miles away and he will call me in the middle of the day and ask "how soon can you get here?" It is apparent that both of my bosses are working me to suit their needs but ignore my requests to suit my needs. More than once, the boss at my full time job has said "I thought you left that other job." And with the on call part time job, they refuse to give me any type of schedule and just want to call me at the last minute, not even giving me a day to make arrangements to work there. I can't just tell my boss at the full time job "hey, I just got a call from my on call job. Gotta go."
So there are several issues here.
One is to get some self help on career counseling and then try to find someone locally to help me with that.
The second is to find some guidance to find a way to make me work these jobs to my advantage. My bosses have found ways to work me to their advantage.
When an employer advertises "we offer flexible schedules" I interpret that to mean that if my second job needs me that the boss at my full time job would offer some flexibility so that I can work the second job. Instead, I get asked to work mostly weekends so that he can spend time with his family and when I think that's permanent, he switches it up so that he can take his kid to a doctor's appointment. I really need to assert myself so that if he wants me to work weekends, I am the one who gets time off during the week and I don't want that changed every other.