Finder Problem on Air

I bought a Macbook Air (first Mac) after buying two iPads and a iPhone. Yeah they got me good...lol But am having a problem getting the Finder to work properly. I search for files and programs that I know that are there but none come up.

I have reindexed the drive multiple times and no difference. I also wanted the finder to show the library folder but I have to trick it to show it for more than a second. I even went in the terminal and put a command in that is suppose to show it but it does not seem to work.

Any help or advice would be appreciated. I am just comparing it to Windows Search which works flawlessly.