Get a job or get out... [As of 8/30]

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Tiya

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I just refuse to believe that there is no job for some young kid. There is always a job... maybe not one with which you can support a family... but at least one to say you are working.

I'm not very picky about my jobs... I'm not usually unemployed for very long if I'm not being picky. You can be a janitor... a trash man... walk up to a work site and ask what you can do. Innovate... wash cars do something... there is always a way to make money.
 
Well in some areas there are no jobs....in our town of 4k people 10% lost their job at once when the mill burnt down. Many were off work for several years, which meant fewer jobs because there was less money in the economy. Oh, and due to the fire, unemployment canceled automatically after 1 yr6 mo with NO extensions.

But, you still need to fill out more than 9 applications. And you have to keep going back to where you applied.

Or go to college. Or the army. Whatever.
 
You might as well set out and good luck to you. I, very recently, know of an 18 year old thrown out by his father, without notice or reason. He'll make it. You'll make it too hun. You can do more than you ever thought you could. I think parents, in this economy, in small towns, throwing their kids to the wolves, are fucking assholes. I know it's not impossible to get a job, but it can take time. Even for people with good work history, in some areas. It's a brutal parenting style insuring your child will not want to have much, if anything to do with you, ever. Good job.

Failure at parenting 101. I don't care about how it used to be, or how it is supposedly pampering your kid. Jesus, the kid hasn't been out of School for a year! There must have been little love there in the first place if it was so easy to throw aside. Sad but true. I'm sorry Rawrr, I hope you get out there and live your life. It's always hard hun, there's no avoiding that part. So you'll make it. You may even have a huge laugh about it in ten years. I hope so.

Don't join the military because "I got no other option". There are other options. Once you're in, you're gonna wish you had explored some of them.
 
You Are NOT Fucked! (Unless You Join The Military) Don't Forget if You Do That.. They Will OWN You! i Did it and it SUCKED ASS..
 
Burn down your house; survive. Double life insurance + house insurance.

Also: NEVER CLAIM YOUR PARENTS BODIES AT THE MORGUE.

lol.

Sell the land the house was on, find a very shitty apartment and live off this money for 10 years, then start to look into your parents advice.
 
Jesus people!

What happened to exploring college I believe you said you were interested in culinary school?? Look that might not be an option right off the bat but college itself is. Even if you don't want to do anything but cook, get your degree in General Sciences. It's what many people do until they find out what it is they do want to do. The semester has probably started now but you should at LEAST fill out the FAFSA. I know a few people, myself included, linked the FAFSA info for you in the other thread. It may not be your dream plan but it certainly sounds better than your other options. Do it now, even if you can't start this semester, that way everything will be in line for next semester. With grants (which it sounds like you will easily qualify for) and loans you can exist for at least the next 3-4 years with a much more promising future than pretty much any other realistic option. At least that way you only have to worry about getting by until the school semester starts.

Really, if you don't do this, I seriously will not believe you wish to change your life for the better at all before being forced to do something you don't want to by other people who shouldn't have any say so in what you decide to do with your life. File FAFSA, find some bullshit job (ANY job) you only have to endure for the next 6 months or so until school starts. Don't tell the new employer that's your plan or nobody will hire you. Look out for yourself and don't worry about the job/boss you'll be leaving. If it came down to it, they would have no qualms about screwing you for their own well-being. Do you not have a friend that might let you stay with them for the time being? If not, as others have stated, go to seek whatever programs the government has for you. Tell them the situation. There are answers, you just have to seek them out.

Also, when you apply for financial aid, do whatever you can to claim your parents are not supporting you at all, even if that means claiming abuse, it's not like they're giving you much choice and frankly, the shit they're doing with you could qualify as terror tactics. Have they even mentioned college as a possibility?? I don't get parents like that. Although I am pretty sure you're going to qualify for everything out there. It doesn't sound like your parents are in an income bracket that would disqualify you for aid.

Do what you want, but if I were in your shoes, knowing what I know now, well, I'd do the above. Good luck and stop putting it off!
 
That's my problem with a lot of "kids" (and adults) on this forum who whine about lack of work. There are jobs out there. Even if you're just mowing yards in the summer, picking up dog shit, shoveling snow in the winter...painting/repairing fences....etc, etc, etc.

Today's youth generally suck balls when it comes to work ethic.
 
Yeah, cuz working for less than minimum wage can support a family...while you lose your unemployment and other assistance...unless you don't report it, which is against the law. Everyone should just take the first shitty job they apply for. And there are jobs, but working part time for minimum wage you will have LESS than being on unemployment while looking for a job. But hey, my kids should have starved while CL mowed lawns? WTF?

And we get like 2 days of snow a year. So that is stupid.

My problem is that he hasn't been applying for enough jobs or trying to go to school.
 
Kid, you have no understanding of economics. If nobody has money, then nobody pays you to do things. When 10% of a town loses their job at once this is what happens. Confusing, I know.

You are one of those people that thinks everyone can just go do any kind of job because you have never lived in an area deemed by the federal government to be below poverty level.

Yes, I know, people should move....so without gas money, I guess we should have walked the 60 miles to the nearest city and lived under a bridge while CL mowed lawns and picked up dog shit and built his clientelle instead of being on unemployment and food stamps and living in our house while he filled out applications for jobs that met or exceeded the amount he recieved.

In any case, you can not rely on your parents. You have to keep looking for work or going to college. This kid filled out 9 apps in over a month. Not very motivated.
 
It took me over 3 years to get a simple part time job that paid minimum wage. It had jack to do with standards. I had to find a job that I could either work full time for money enough to cover daycare for my kids and still actually bring money in afterward, or a part time job I could work evenings and weekends so I wouldn't have to put the kids in daycare- almost impossible considering the highschool/college student population here. The latter is what I ended up finally finding after three years of blanketing this friggin town constantly with applications/resumes. Not everything is as simple as, "lower your standards". :rolleyes:
 
I'm with DG on this one. Where there is a will, there's a way.


You're using the economy as an excuse to bitch and half-ass your job search. There are more than 9 businesses within 3 square miles of you. I fucking guarantee it.


Fuck, hike to Louisiana and get a job cleaning up the beach.


There are enough openings in warehouses and industries alone to keep your belly fat. There are all kinds of oddball jobs you don't even know exist, you just have to see them and say "Gee, I can do that!"



Or bitch. Cause that's working out so well for you.







This kid doesn't even have any of those responsibilities! It's one thing to say that you can't find a job that can meet your family's needs. That's a bit harder to do.


I've seen people willing to walk 10 miles in the dead of an Alaskan winter to find work. I doubt this kid is 10% as motivated as he could be.
 
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