Job help
 

hey im lookin for a job that doesnt totally suck, im 17 and it will be my first job........i dont care how much i get paid really......i just want to keep my hair,so any sugestions?

fast food

Problem is that you are limited till you are 18. The department of labor strictly governs how minors can work. I would suggest trying to get in as a stocker in a grocery store. Its not the best job, but you generally can wear headphones and just work. You might try a temp agency. It doesn't pay the best, but you can try different things. Working general labor normally doesn't restrict long hair. Anything involving customer service or dealing with the public is more likely to have you get a haircut.

ok thanks.......cause theres a grocery store right next to my house so ill think ill do that

Good luck.

I'm also looking for a job just now.

places I'd work:

record shop, bar, club, restaurant, cinema, coffee shop, supermarket, gym/leisure centre, clothes/book store...etc etc.

A record shop is a bit of a pipe dream, but there are a few good ones around here so maybe when I'm at University...if i keep asking intermittently...i might get in sometime. I just don't want to work in a call centre or an office or anything ****ty like that. I've worked in a call centre before, and it's f'ucking awful.

yeah id go for a record shop or maybe do some oddjobs at some recording studio would be nice but probably not gonna happen.......

I've been trying to get a job lately, but unfortunately I left the job-finding thing till too late. All the jobs are taken.

You have no idea how much it irritates when me when I go to a record store and see albums in the wrong sections and know it wouldn't be like that if I worked there. But of course, I can't actually get a job at one of those places. :banghead:

Maybe I'll put 'moderator on a music forum' on my CV and hope for the best. :laughing:

ive been working at a bar for like 7 months now, really nice i stared as a cleaner and now i clean and dishwash also i get $8.00hr
but umm yeah theve never complained about how i looked so yeah get a kitchen job but whatch out who you hangout wiht for people you meet there

I don't think you can work at a bar if you're underaged.

I plant trees and make 250 bucks a day ...so if you want money do that ......

well i do, i dont serve drinks i dont handle liquor with expection to stocking the shevles after drop off, if you cant where you live it must be a state things(its also a highend restraunt)

Wal-Mart's really not as bad as it sounds, as long as you're not a cashier. If you can get into Electronics, Photo Lab, or Connection Center (they do the cell phone stuff) you'll be set. Connection Center is the easiest job in the store. Just stand at your counter all day and wait for customers to come to you. You do maybe 3 contracts a day, at about 10 minutes each, and you start off at like $8/hr.

Omg be a Walmart greeter that would be the sickest job ever!

i thnk i owuld be dissapointed in myself for working at wal-mart, i hate that place wiht a passion, of course i have alot of moral issues with large corperations, departments stores are the worst for different reasons then walmart but there really the same evil to me

They only hire the elderly or mentally inept for that job, same with the maintenance crew.

dude my uncle is the maanger of maintnance at the walmart where i live

im not fond of him, if it werent for him stealing a coin and pawning it for $50 my family would be filthy rich right now

Pull a ringer (the movie) and be a wal-mart greeter. Also dont work until you neeeeeeeeeeeeed toooo like i mean need too. I have never worked in my life, and i love that. ( i am only 18 still in school)

I work at shaws
it sucks
because i hate serving people, and i was made cashier, i wanted to be produce so i could do nothing that involved people

thats bull **** I have been working since I was 15 and I think I started too late. Working is amazing even if its a **** job having money is the boss. I went to china when I was 16 and payed every cent for it......it felt great

I totally understand man but really i have never had a need to work. I travel all summer and have money to do whatever i want with.

but where are you getting all this money?

it sounds bad, but my parents they dont care they will give me money for anything and everything as long as i am still in school, i am in high school right now. and next year i will be university, which they are paying for house and all.

yeah my parents are like that to but I really wanted them to respect me (I am not saying yours don't) but my brother never asked for money and I can see how much my parents respect him for it.
So I wanted to do the same I pay for my own house and for school. And it feels great well others rely on there parents or OSAP (student loans) I feel great knowing that I will never have any debt

ya, its great i realy respect people who work hard to get where they are. My main reason i never worked is sports, i am big into baseball now because i had to choose between that and hockey a couple years ago,was into both heavily. and really my family always travels so holding down a job was never really practicle i guess in a sense.

Understandable about always moving but being big in sports is kind of lame. I was huge into sports but I always made time to work and I still do

I come from a family where i dont really need to work at all, and i travel all the time for both sports and pleasure. So my parents never really forced me to get a job when i was younger, so i just had a normal, fun childhood (not saying you cant have a good childhood working or anything like that) and now i am focusing on school over the last year or so, so i choose not to work. Maybe because of this i will lack skills or something else when it comes time to go into the work world. i wouldent change it for anything, because when i am 30+ been work in the same job for however long, i think i will look back on this time and remember it.

I really do see your point and I respect you as much as I would if you had a job and I think we both make some really good points here which is nice.


I also think its good for the soul to have a **** job when your younger it makes you have alot more respect for people and makes you a better customer and you know the value of the dollar

All I have to say about this is don't grow up faster than you have to. If you can get away with not working and enjoy life a little more, DO IT.

EDIT: If you enjoy work, do that, but if you don't...

I hate work and I have been working forever and I am not grown up most of the time.

You have also been humbled by a **** job and realize that the world isn't the fairy tale you would rather live in (just a generalization).

lol it so bites when you realize its not a fairy tale the real world hits you hard

If you dont mind me asking lucylamppost, what jobs have you had?

I worked during 3 years of high school, and I wish I didn't, especially as I was already making money from business ventures.

To be honest, you don't need much money when you're living at home and at high school. Your time can be better spent with mates, (in some people's cases) doing schoolwork, or bird-doggin' chicks and bangin' beaver. Seriously though, high school years are some of the best of your life (probably sounds naive as I'm only going on 20).

Of course it depends on your situation... but I think the ideal situation is to work perhaps 5 hours a week after school, so that you have enough money to buy necessary things, but it doesn't intrude on your life. And if you really need money (for uni etc), work in the summer hols.

No Worries
My first job was working at Burger King (and I dont eat meat)
Then I worked at Store that sold beads
I have been a house back riding instructor
Then I was a photographer (like weddings and ****)
Worked for a non-profit, community-based conservation group to protect and restore the Rouge Watershed in Toronto Ontario Canada.
Then for 6 months of my life I was a tree planter planting anywhere from 2000-3000 trees a day
And also worked at a photolab in shoppers drug mart

that is a pretty big list, that is great that you are part of NPO stuff not just big corp stuff.

thanks yeah NRO is where its at I plan to run one one day when i settle down. I dont work there anyone but i still volunteer alot it's so nice

ya i might do a little work with them soon, i was thinking of taking some time off bofore going to university travel, may be build a school in africa or something like that, my parents also do some work with some companies or organizations like these, well not work they give money, so might look into them.

I never got the whole 'if you work young it'll build character' thing. If by character you subordinance and an acceptance of authority then yah, I guess it does.

Working young is dumb and horrible, and I don't know why I do it....except I think I got fired....but I'm not sure