How Do I Find A Good Job As 18 yo?

[SimpleGuy]

Basically I don`t study in the uni and live with my single mom. I do self-improvement habits like meditation, contemplation, exercise, etc; but all I need now is job that develops my skills and gives some income. Likely job should be in sales, as I`m ENTJ personality type or something similar. In future I want to be either politician or conscious social entrepreneur (this is why I need to develops skills in sales and similar areas).

My problem is I don`t know which job I don`t hate at least. I worked in call centre and every time I had to pick up the phone I literally felt very slight nausea (does anyone has this reaction too? ), also I hated my life. I don`t ask for perfect job, I`m just asking that at least develops skills I need and I don`t totally hate it.

Is there any way to not go through thousands of jobs just to find one fit?

[Rigel]

It’s the other way around. You need to develop skills to get a good job. You will have to do like the rest of us did and suck it up with a low level job until you can provide value. Ironically(cause you hated & left), call centre builds low level social interaction skills you could leverage to move into sales & then work your way up. How long did you work there? Maybe you could still leverage that if you’ve learned anything from it.

[SimpleGuy]

4 minutes ago, Rigel said:

How long did you work there?

I did it for 2 days and left. If most of people who work in their jobs feel what I felt during these 2 days, I really better become monk or kill myself. Because I instantly lost all that beauty of life. I worked a few jobs before that I hated too. It was horrible too. I didn`t even wanted to wake up anymore, look at the trees, be in nature, sit in the sun. All this wholesome stuff just got so grey to me when I was working that. Is it really so common amongst the people?

[SimpleGuy]

Also I just can`t really understand: is it me being a bitch and not wanting to do some cald calls or this job, in example, in call centre is really so unfitting for me?

To be honest I worked a year ago 8 hours a day as editor for my yt channel for a several days and I didn`t feel FUCKING NAUSEA working

Edited 15 hours ago by SimpleGuy

[Rigel]

Yeah most people aren’t happy with their job. What you are trying to do is uncommon and there’s a cost. The cost is training, there really isn’t anyway around that. I don’t know what is right for you but my first few jobs were definitely miserable too. All successful people I know had to suck it up at some point to bootstrap themselves. You are still young, it’ll get better but you have to build experience in basically anything & expand from there. Leaving a job after 2 days because you don’t like it says a lot about your character to potential employers. Don’t even mention it to them. Don’t put that on your resume.

Pretty much every employer will ask some variation of these from you:

-Take responsibility & be proactive.

-Admit mistakes, ask questions & ability to learn.

-Be on time.

-Good attitude. In musician circles we call that being a good hang. That’s very underrated. Even with no skills you can just be a positive presence around others. They like it & you will too. That gets your foot in the door.

[Rigel]

You could aim for cashier or something similar. You could chat up everyone that goes through, build social skills in that way, then maybe move up to server or the likes, etc, etc.

[SimpleGuy]

1 hour ago, Rigel said:

Yeah most people aren’t happy with their job. What you are trying to do is uncommon and there’s a cost. The cost is training, there really isn’t anyway around that. I don’t know what is right for you but my first few jobs were definitely miserable too. All successful people I know had to suck it up at some point to bootstrap themselves. You are still young, it’ll get better but you have to build experience in basically anything & expand from there. Leaving a job after 2 days because you don’t like it says a lot about your character to potential employers. Don’t even mention it to them. Don’t put that on your resume.

Pretty much every employer will ask some variation of these from you:

-Take responsibility & be proactive.

-Admit mistakes, ask questions & ability to learn.

-Be on time.

-Good attitude. In musician circles we call that being a good hang. That’s very underrated. Even with no skills you can just be a positive presence around others. They like it & you will too. That gets your foot in the door.

The problem with working shitty jobs is that it doesn`t really builds you valuable skills. I want job that at least builds skills, then pays money. Because working as a cashier or mopping floors in McDonald`s for 40 years is no good idea for me. And I left job after 2 days because, in reality, I`m not desperate for money so much. I live with my mother, she gives me food, place to live, basically pays for everything. And idea of running off my "warm" place is quite bad because I would be anyway working some shit job. So I can work shit job in both cases.

Anyway thanks for feedback and advise!

Edited 14 hours ago by SimpleGuy

[Rigel]

15 minutes ago, SimpleGuy said:

The problem with working shitty jobs is that it doesn`t really builds you valuable skills. I want job that at least builds skills, then pays money. Because working as a cashier or mopping floors in McDonald`s for 40 years is no good idea for me. And I left job after 2 days because, in reality, I`m not desperate for money so much. I live with my mother, she gives me food, place to live, basically pays for everything. And idea of running off my "warm" place is quite bad because I would be anyway working some shit job. So I can work shit job in both cases.

Anyway thanks for feedback and advise!

Then use your time to train. The good jobs are the ones you have to create and you cannot do that from a position of lacking skill. Businesses aren’t schools.

[SimpleGuy]

2 hours ago, Rigel said:

Then use your time to train. The good jobs are the ones you have to create and you cannot do that from a position of lacking skill. Businesses aren’t schools.

Thanks for advice!

[Sammy123]

Just be open to anything and apply everywhere  Every time I got the job I wanted I was miserable then when I just got anything random I would sometimes meet the best group of people and be so happy. Take action action action IMO  Let your actions reveal the answers xx

[Sammy123]

Honestly you're so young, why not a few years of short courses / education. They will get you in routine and out of depression and they are low pressure social work environments good for your mental health. 

I also disagree a lot with what Rigel is saying. Pls just take action on any small goals and dont sit at home overthinking it

Edited 11 hours ago by Sammy123

[SimpleGuy]

2 minutes ago, Sammy123 said:

Honestly you're so young, why not a few years of short courses / education. They will get you in routine and out of depression and they are low pressure social work environments good for your mental health. 

I also disagree a lot with what Rigel is saying. Pls just take action on any small goals and dont sit at home overthinking it

I don`t believe in university especially since I live in 3-rd world country. So is your advice just "take more action"? Thanks anyway

[Sammy123]

Yep. If you wanna stay stuck and depressed you can do that too 

[bazera]

@SimpleGuy Are you familiar with tech industry? There are many possible roles that you can train for and then try to apply for jobs.

Currently programming jobs are scarce, but there are other roles like devops engineer, in IT infrastructure, QA engineer, roles in project management, etc. Just look for roles that might not be as overcrowded such as software developers or designers.

[Carl-Richard]

Wibe code some website or app or service with ChatGPT and put a paywall on it, run Facebook ads and see if it profits.

If you don't have any ideas what to make, ask ChatGPT for ideas that might be profitable and not require too much work to make.

Edited 8 hours ago by Carl-Richard