Alandoril said:
Dwarfman said:
Happiness Assassin said:
I'm 19 and I am stuck at home unable to get a job. I burnt out on all my old games and are looking to some old favorites. Right now I am on Oblivion. But I can't keep this up for much longer. I know what you mean.
You are unable to get a job? Or you just don't like what's available. I don't know the pay rates in America (sorry checked your bio for your nationality) but my advice is find a crappy job within or near-to the career you want to work in later in life, failing that become a glassy or dishwasher in a bar or restaurant. Yes the pay is crap but start at the bottom of the ladder where experience isn't necessary, and soon you will find yourself with money and hopefully resume material so you can get a better job.
Also. Once working a hard day, coming home tired and grumpy and needing to release your mind from work so you can sleep. Playing Oblivion - or any game really - becomes not just enjoyable. It becomes therapeutic as well.
Telling someone that dishwashing experience is going to help on a CV. It will not, unless the next job he applies for is also dishwashing. There is no working your way up from the bottom these days. You have to already have access to what you want to do, typically by working for free for ages so you can come ready trained to the position you want. Whatever happened to training as you work? Industries these days, all of them, are a joke.
Oi. My first job was as a dishpig and now years down the track I'm a fully qualified chef thankyou very much!
It may seem that way. The most important things to take from a crappy job like dishwashing is discipline and character. I know. I know. Bear with me here.
So you get said crappy job. You turn up on time. You come to work well presented - sure you're gonna look like shit afterwards but that's no excuse. You get the job done. You start to take orders without complaint and you start thinking for yourself "How am I going to go about all this shit so I can get it done in a quick and efficient manner". In the end what counts on that CV isn't you worked as a kitchen hand for six months at Blah! It's future employer rings up past employer and past employer says " Alandoril? Yeah! That bastard was awesome, keen to work and a pleasure to work with, why I'd hire him again myself!" That there my friend is your foot in the next door. Let's face it, is the employer going to choose out of two graduates the guy who has just graduated and is looking for work, or the guy who has just graduated and whilst looking for work found a job in between and has proven himself to be a capable worker? Also you'd have money!
As a tradey (Well a chef, but we're tradesmen) We received training - and still receive training - on the job and at college. I'm not sure about the white collar industry. But Aren't there internships you can apply for? Unless it's the computer industry. My brother is a software engineer and he's always complaining about the lack of internships in the IT industry to help train and develop the youngsters graduating.
Mind you all this 'old man' advice is coming from someone in Australia, I'm not sure how America works in these matters.
