Hello everyone, my first post here. First of all, I don’t have a job, I’ve never worked (I’m 20 years old), and I have no idea how to go about getting my first job. What would you recommend? Do you have any tips on how to conduct myself in a job interview? Any advice on how to feel less anxious?
In my early teens I hung out at a video game shop until they hired me. For later jobs I went to the mall and filled out applications for anyone taking them.
Eventually I went to school and started a career. My best advice is try things that you have an interest in. Learning things will seem less like work. The best jobs are the engaging ones.
That first video store I basically dumped my wages back into the shop buying video games and gundams. I loved it, but there were un-fun things like cleaning and inventory.
Don’t let the people who are just there for job wear you down.
That’s more or less how I got my first job back in the 90s. A buddy and I started hanging out at the local computer store. We discovered Linux because we wanted to run an Amiga emulator and a little later when the store wanted to start as an ISP, this was the time of local/long distance calls, so local ISPs were a thing, we got hired and build it all from scratch. Radius server, smtpd etc. everything based on the standard *nix tools, except the customer db/app which we wrote ourselves. We both dropped out of computer science for this and now almost 30 years later neither of us finished school, but both still work in tech. These were the wild days of the young Internet and I doubt it’s something that would really work these days.