Anthony Weiner is so desperate for work, he has been dialing up friends in the restaurant industry for advice and job leads, sources said.

Days after the Nov. 8 presidential election, the disgraced former congressman and failed mayoral candidate spoke with a pal who works at the Hunt & Fish Club, the swanky Times Square meat market, about his future, two sources familiar with the conversation said. “He said . . . he’s ‘looking for whatever’s next,’ ” one source said.

Weiner didn’t inquire about specific openings at the chophouse but asked them to “think of anything, what I could do for my next step.” A master of understatement, Weiner glumly acknowledged, “There’s not a lot that’s necessarily available.”

The source thought Weiner could fill a “back of the house” role — perhaps at brother Jason Weiner’s Bridgehampton-based bistro Almond. Neither Weiner replied to e-mails and calls seeking comment.

The serial sexter resigned from Congress in June 2011 after tweeting a picture of his crotch to a woman and then lying that his ­account had been hacked.

Weiner attempted a political comeback in May 2013 when he ran for mayor, with his now-estranged wife, Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, advising him.

He even led a five-way Democratic primary field until a report two months later revealed that in 2012 he sent explicit messages online to another woman.

He tried to keep a low profile during the 2016 elections, but reports surfaced this fall that he sent illicit e-mails to a 15-year-old North Carolina girl. He checked into a Tennessee rehabilitation clinic for cybersex-addiction treatment.

Federal investigators seized four electronic devices from Weiner and his estranged wife, including a laptop he used to communicate with the teenager.

The probe found Clinton-related e-mails on the laptop that Abedin had sent or received, which led FBI Director James Comey to re-examine the bureau’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server 12 days before the election.

By the time Weiner returned to New York, Clinton’s presidential hopes had imploded and a federal grand jury considered pressing sex-crimes charges against him.

Last week, the city Campaign Finance Board fined him $65,000 for spending mayoral campaign cash on personal expenses.

Some political sages say Weiner would make a good TV commentator.

“He is very smart and insightful . . . but the media outlet that may hire him has to make sure there are no more embarrassing ­moments,” said Democratic consultant George Arzt. “Can you trust his word that he’s OK and has not done anything else?”

Then there’s the possibility of cashing in on a tell-all. Publisher Simon & Schuster paid Hillary Clinton $14 million for her 2014 memoir “Hard Choices.”

But others think his job prospects are dim. “He has no formal education or training in a different sector,” said one Democratic insider. “It’s very difficult. He’s hated by both parties.”

Weiner likely needs a change of scenery, as opposed to a job in the service industry, another political operative said.

“If I were him, I’d change my name to Smith and move to Idaho,” the source said. “He’s too well known here. Imagine seeing him in a restaurant. ‘Can I have a table for three?’ ”