Acting jobs can be hard to come by, so what can you do to increase your chances of getting paid work? Hang out on Sunset Boulevard next to the buildings that house the talent agencies with headshot and resume in hand? Take brunch every day at the cafe around the corner from Phillip Morris? Maybe drive a car with your face plastered on the side through Downtown Beverly Hills, advertising your phone number and availability for acting jobs? These are interesting ideas, but they may give you results aside from acting jobs that you weren't seeking, like going broke from eating brunch on Wilshire every day, being issued a ticket for loitering on Sunset, or pulled over for cruising Doheny every day.
How can you avoid this and really find acting jobs without driving yourself crazy? No one knows. You will assuredly go crazy no matter what you do to find acting jobs, so just accept this and move on, as being slightly crazy may in fact help you to survive in this business. The biggest determining factor is really you. If you are well motivated and resourceful, and you don't give up just because you went on auditions for a year and didn't get cast in the next new blockbuster movie.
What keeps most folks who are just starting out from making it is they hope acting jobs will just fall into their lap. They don't have the determination to go on and try many different routes to make it to their goal. Acting jobs are out there, you have to be here to get them.