Got a job!

[A2P]

Granted, it's only 12 hours/week at minimum wage, but still...

[gold stinger]

hooray progression in life
I got mine at Shoppers Drug Mart a couple months ago apart of my Co-Operative Education.

Better than nothing right? Gets money flowin'?

[dAnceguy117]

baller. way to go!

[UserNameGoesHere]

Congrats

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start small and work your way up. congrats and good luck

[Pseudo Enigma]

hey, it's something right? Good for you!

[Choofers]

grats now when you've worked there for 6 months or so you can get a better job

[Wayward Vagabond]

I wish 12 was minimum here

Congrats though bro champion that shit

[AlexDest]

awesome mang, way to go

[Oni-Paranoia]

Congratulations! No, not really. Wish you the best get fired.

[Reincarnate]

Originally Posted by Oni-Paranoia

Congratulations! No, not really. Wish you the best get fired.

Come on, really?

[UserNameGoesHere]

Ooh didn't see the white text until the quote.

Yeah that's kind of a low blow. I don't care if you personally like A2P or not.

[Oni-Paranoia]

That's not even close to a low blow. And Rubix, you don't even know. Hah. Not posting in this thread again, but seriously, I can say much worse. Me even being sarcastic is more positive than A2P has ever gotten from me.

Let me be nicer before everyone goes mad-rage. Still hope the worse on you, but in good faith, good luck and make money.

[FissionMailed1]

Just going to chime in and say that your attitude is pathetic, regardless of how much bad blood may exist between you and A2P.

On topic though, congrats A2P! Glad you got hired!

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a2p hates me but i'm not butthurt over some bullshit. grow up oni

[Arntonach]

Good luck A2P! Might only be 12 hour work weeks, but soon enough you'll wish you had that.

[Plan_Bsk81127]

I want to say congrats, but..........this is really not something to be proud of. *shrugs*

[kommisar]

congrats. i hear jobs in america are hard to come by

[dAnceguy117]

Originally Posted by Plan_Bsk81127

I want to say congrats, but..........this is really not something to be proud of. *shrugs*

how's that? it's pretty easy to throw applications around for a while and not hear back from anyone. it's also pretty easy to sit on the couch and not look for a job. if you're so highly motivated (and lucky) that you can't understand why someone would be excited about landing a job, then that's fantastic. you should probably keep it to yourself though.

Originally Posted by kommisar

congrats. i hear jobs in america are hard to come by

true that. several factors come into play, including location, availability, level of education, field, position... lots of stuff. on the whole, though, I think that statement is pretty accurate.

[reuben_tate]

Yup, there are some people out there that would kill for job even if it meant doing something they absolutely hated like scrubbing toilets (no offense to those that scrub toilets. It's just something I probably would hate to do myself (with the exception of the toilet at home, I don't have to worry about some jerk making a mess in there)).

The reason why it's hard for people to get their first job is because many jobs, even super-basic jobs that don't/barely require a high school degree prefer to hire people with experience. So you have can't get a job because you don't have experience and you don't have experience because you can't get a job. The worst Catch 22 ever.

EDIT: Woops, I almost forgot about how one can get past this Catch 22. So how do you get work experience if nobody is going to hire you? The answer is simple: you volunteer. Think of it this way: you're either going to be sitting at home all day and making nothing or you could volunteer (even if it's just a few hours a week) and gain some work experience. In both cases you'll make no money but if you volunteer, it brings you closer to actually getting a job since having that experience from volunteering will make you a favorable candidate when it comes time for employers to choose who to hire.

Some other tips:
Even though you aren't making anything when volunteering, do things with pride and with your best effort. Treat it like it was a job you could be fired from. If you show yourself to be a good volunteer, it'll be easy to have someone in the program/whatever you are volunteering in to write you a recommendation.

Try to volunteer somewhere or at multiple places to get a variety of transferable skills. Office skills, people skills, and technology skills are the main three I can think of (each which can be broken down to individual skills like being able to send a fax, answering a business call, or managing a spreadsheet.)

Personally, I volunteered as a math tutor at night for some high school summer enrichment program last summer. Not to brag, but the kids loved me and the staff of the program took notice and was able to write me some good recommendations which allowed me to get my foot in the door. And once you get that foot in the door, if you keep being persistent and seeking out opportunities, they'll just start rolling in at some point. All from taking that first initial step (n)>