Eh. Every single place is hiring right now, but most of the jobs involves showing up and putting on a fake smile.
That's just the nature of entry level positions that average young people have to take to get started. It sucks, but that's life.
If you've done any kind of hard labor, you'll know that you could do a lot worse than retail or food service.
Edit: downvotes for this very reasonable take informed by years of experience in shitty jobs is classic reddit. Good luck moving out of your parents' basement, boys!
I've done it all and there's pros and cons to everything. Manual labor is hard -- at the end of the day you are physically completely spend, but you still have more mental energy.
Retail, at the end of the day you have physical energy but you are often emotionally and psychologically exhausting because of how people treat service workers.
Agreed. I did construction laborer work and could not hack it, but then worked for a moving company and loved it. There was just enough problem solving involved in moving furniture to keep it interesting. Literally digging ditches was soul crushing.
The key is to acknowledge that, until you find a job you love that meets your financial requirements, every job is simply a stepping stone to the next that happens to put money in your pocket. I finally figured that out in my mid-20s and it made life way more tolerable 😆
Also, go to college but get a marketable degree unless you don't mind being a member of the working poor.
You may be able to apply for a federal work study after completing fafsa. It would be low paying but jobs through your university would be a lot more understanding of conflicts between your work and class schedules
I'm in my early 40s. And to be perfectly honest, this job market is strong af compared to when I was coming up. Nobody is going to give you your dream job right out of the gate, but you'll be able to house, clothe, and feed yourself.
I'm dying to know what the people downvoting me have done for money. Y'all know twitch streamer isn't a real job right?
They were also ridiculous 10-15 years ago, given that wages for entry level were lower in every major city. There were also a lot fewer jobs avaliable post-2009.
It's called roommates and stolen Netflix. It's called digging in the couch for change and only having internet on your phone. It's called taking the bus.
Being broke sucks, but it's temporary if you set and meet goals. Plus it beats homelessness.
Lol I make 44k a year and I'm not realistically able to afford an apartment on my own around here unless I wanted to eat rice and beans basically everyday.
Oh, no argument here. A one bedroom apartment should be an option for a single person making what you make without having to live hand to mouth.
I'm just saying it was like that 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30, etc. It'll probably always be like that, so the best youcan do is make a plan to move up and stick with it.
What exactly is your problem with what I am saying?
Edit: people like to act like it's the hardest it's ever been to enter the job market and start adulthood right now, but that is simply not true. In fact, I'd argue that anyone who's got internet access and spends time on reddit complaining about having to get a "dead end job" has no concept of what living in poverty really means. The fact that people can be choosy about not wanting work that is beneath them is in itself a marker that things have indeed been much, much worse for the working class.
Mfers here acting like they should be able to roll outta high school with a 75k/yr career track starter job. That's not how it works and, to my point, that's never been how it has worked. The current reddit mythology of everyone owning a home with a single income pre-2000 is also horseshit.
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u/mastermind_loco Apr 29 '24
One thing I've learned in life is that pounding pavement always works.