Dear gypsy456,
You might want to try
www.craigslist.org Try the creative jobs and gigs. Look back over several days, maybe a week's or more entries, and try every day. I found only one job on that site, one that didn't work out, and a couple of near misses, the whole time I looked (over a year), but that may not happen with you. I have communicated with others who've used that site who said they'd gotten a steady stream of work.
I don't know about in LA, but it can be difficult to find just a regular job in fields where jobs are plentiful almost anywhere in the U.S. So, the only thing I can suggest is perseverance and hard work at looking; it's a numbers game, you know. The more places you try, the better chances you have of success. That seems to be with almost anything, including dating!
Finally, it took my sister about two years to find a job she liked and she's in a pretty mundane field, had a BA from the U.S. and then went on to get an MA, then finally landed a job she really liked. Good luck!