Where should I start from?

southerncritic

I am a 22 year old college drop-out with officially no previous work experience, except for having helped my dad out in his office for a few weeks. I can't work with him anymore because the company he worked at went out of business. I live with my parents. I've never really needed money before but now I need to have an income because I want to save up in order to move out. I've been to job centers but I haven't had any positive response yet. I'd like to know whether you know any places that would hire someone with no work experience?

Emmzi

weren't you a graduate needing a starter job at the weekend?

And you haven't answered what county you are in.

The usual answer is "volunteering".

torbrex

You have stated that you are in America but not which part.

Unemployment over there is a harsh reality for college dropouts but there are low paid unskilled jobs around if you put the legwork into finding them, dont expect them to come to you.

southerncritic

Emmzi wrote: »

weren't you a graduate needing a starter job at the weekend?

And you haven't answered what county you are in.

The usual answer is "volunteering".

I dropped out. I guess you're talking about my question why employers are so picky? I was making a comparison there. But I did go to university, recently dropped out. anyway. I live in Houston. it's bad here. i need a starter job yeah, that's why i had to drop out to start with.

southerncritic

torbrex wrote: »

You have stated that you are in America but not which part.

Unemployment over there is a harsh reality for college dropouts but there are low paid unskilled jobs around if you put the legwork into finding them, dont expect them to come to you.

Yeah. I know man. I guess there's hope though.

torbrex

southerncritic wrote: »

Yeah. I know man. I guess there's hope though.

You wont find very much in the way of help from this site as it is UK based but you are welcome to stay and look around for any tips that might be international.

I am not working at the moment but I just keep plugging away in the hope that I will get a foot back on the employment ladder.

Emmzi

so, the volunteering?

Vejovis

Where should I start from?
the bottom and work your way up. cleaning, office grunt, anything is a start.

SarEl

southerncritic wrote: »

I dropped out. I guess you're talking about my question why employers are so picky? I was making a comparison there. But I did go to university, recently dropped out. anyway. I live in Houston. it's bad here. i need a starter job yeah, that's why i had to drop out to start with.

Hmmm. Interesting. From your first post you appear to think that the USA is being dragged down by the rest of the world. So let's test out that theory on Houston.

Houston is a "coming economy". Not a paradise, but unemployment is below (8% in Houston) the US average (9.1%), and below the average in a wide range of US and other Western cities. The cost of living in Houston is over 12% below the US average - in other words, for a city, it is "a really good deal". It has a range of new industries investing in the city and has a good balance between manufacturing and service based industry. Seven sectors of industry in Houston are growing at faster that the US national average, and unemployment has been steadily dropping for over a year, So not paradise, but also not so bad.

I just don't get that you "had to drop out" to get a starter job. The problem you have is not the economy, but the fact that the decisions you have made have disadvantaged you. You are of an age where you have neither experience nor academic achiebvement to procve your worth to an employer. If they want someone at $1 per hour, there are plenty of people to pick from who have no expectation of anything else. And if you want a career with the trimmings - you should have finished your degree for a start, because you have shown commitment to nothing by dropping out.

I find it interesting that you have chosen a UK site to come and whinge on - do they not have sites in the US? Especially since, in your other post, you state such a poor opinion of the "rest of the world" which is "dragging the US down with it". What - not enough sympathy on US sites?

Unlike most people here, I have dual UK/US citizenship and my (step) children are both US citizens, born and educated in the USA. My duaghter has worked in additon to her studies and is now a qualified doctor undertaking postgraduate study in the UK. My son is still doing his undergraduate studies and also works to support himself. Just like students in the UK, and the world over, do.

So the world isn't easy - well get over it, because that's just a fact. Your complaints seem to be more about what you think you are owed - and those sorts of complaints don't pan out anywhere in the world. You think life was easier 30 years ago? Then you obviously haven't actually talked to your father about it. You say he started work on the family farm at 13 - how easy fo you think that was? Did that and got his high school diploma - how easy do you think that was? Got a job and worked his !!!! off to support his family - how easy do you think that was?

You have been privileged - you didn't have to work at 13 years old, and you got to go to university and dropped out. Your choices. Yes times are hard. There haven't been many times when they haven't been. Stop blaming "the rest of the world" for your choices.