Topic: Should I Get A Job?

I'm thinking about getting a job. All of my friends has one. It could take months to get a job but one of my friends has 3 jobs. I watched my older sister apply for a lot of jobs, it took her 4 months just to get one job. One of my friends on facebook called me a "girl" because "A man has a job!" I'm thinking "Dude you're 16 and you work at Popeyes. You're not a man with a minimum wage paycheck." Back in High School, this 14 year old boy was begging me to go get a job. I felt annoyed by him. When I was in the Theater Club, this guy everyday kept on telling to get a job. If I get a job? I'm not going to get one to appease other people. The reason why I want a job is to buy more awesome video games, and clothes.

@lilman390 if you're at school, it doesn't matter a huge deal whether you get a job or not. As you said yourself, it's the difference between being able to buy your own games, clothes and other stuff, or not.
If you're old enough to be finished with school, then yes. Get up off your butt and get a job. The only people entitled to be out of work are school children, pensioners, people with dissabilities, or if you are a perant with a partner who is working and can cover the bills.

I'm looking for a job because I graduated high school. Now I wake up every morning playing video games and watching TV. I'm starting college in the Spring Semester.

You should get a part-time job then is better that way. I'm about to go to work again very soon. once am done resting from surgery.

I would recommend you get as much work experience( part time) as soon as possible. It goes a long way, almost important if not more important than just the College experience. Don't get me wrong, education is always number one, but work experience leads to better connections, something to fall back on after you graduate while your looking for what you really want to do for the next 40 plus years. Work experience is basically reality, and yes you have control over your finances, you could even save early so you can retire or payoff a bill or two .

This economy sucks pretty bad so it will take an average of about 4 to even 8 months to get work if you don't already have connections; but when you do
get your foot in the door it will benefit you, after you have graduated from college or if you are just looking for a job. For some reason people tend to hire people that are already working.

Well sounds like it is time to grow up kiddo.

You should; it can only do you good if you stay at your job. While video games and clothes are definitely neat things, jobs are important because it requires you to stay on your toes and get work done fast and effectively. It's also good for establishing good ethnics and social skills as well as getting a thick skin. Get one as soon as you can and get a part-time job even at school. Employers will look favorably at people who will work for a long period of time. I'd also make sure to get internships if you've decided on a major already.

Get a job some place that's fun like an ice cream shop or something, because working with happy people can make you feel so much better in general, but working with miserable people is a drag.

@lilman390 if you start working at one of those fast food restaurants then you better not become one of those lazy, pot addict @ holes that always gets my orders wrong.

... says the person who's asking other people for their opinions regarding whether or not to get a job? you're sending very mixed messages... either you want a job but need help finding one — and that's something you should talk to your parents or legal guardians about, since they'll be the ones having to help arrange transportation and of course they'll want to know where you're going every day after school — or you aren't going to bother anyway and anything we say will be pointless. :/

Well - I have one, and I gotta' say..

It's pretty good.
Then again. I work with the most pleasant people.
Take that^ point, then add in being able to buy a PS4 etc. with the money you earned whilst doing something you actually enjoy *, and it's a no-brainer.

*I'm one of the few people who has a job they actually enjoy.

As a newly married man who has been searching for a job to support my wife and myself for the past year, this thread grinds my gears.

Seriously, I know that you're in this comfortable slump after high school life where you and your colleagues are all high on the feeling of finally getting out of required education on your own, FREEDOM! You feel that every day is at your command! Well, don't enjoy it too much or you may end up living with your parents in your 40's. Never get comfortable with living freely, it's not a good thing to become.

That said, I agree with everyone that says, get a part time job. You'll need something that can go well with your upcoming college schedule. Your friends saying that you need a job to become a man? They're absolutely correct. Until you have that experience on your back, you're merely a boy. And once you start earning paychecks, try aiming for something higher or bigger than video games and clothing. Save up for something big, take a loan out on a car, or buy a cell phone and start paying bills, this will build credit for you, which is essential if you ever plan to own your own house. /advice

waitaminute... never mind. i saw that '16' part of your original post and thought you were talking about your peers, not younger people on your FB. sorry, my former comment was from the viewpoint of someone who thought you were 16 and still in high school, so we can ignore that now. (any other 16-year-old high schoolers can freely take that advice, though! i had a crap job at 16 and don't regret it a bit; looking back on it makes me appreciate what i have now :3)

consider this my real reply to you, @lilman390: that 16-year-old kid working at Popeyes' is already more a man than someone who does nothing but sit around and play video games and watch TV. Gainful employment teaches responsibility and the value of hard work. I wouldn't look down on people earning minimum wage if I were you; chances are that's what you're going to be looking at yourself as soon as you graduate. If I had a dime for all the college grads I know who are now working in jobs nowhere near their field of study that they had to work their way up from the bottom rung, I'd be a millionaire.

I am in full agreement with @Retrowire. If you want a job, get one; there's a good chance it'll do wonders for your life perhaps not so much in terms of money, but in valuable real-world experience, goal-setting and fulfillment, working with others as a team, etc. and so forth. Don't get a job thinking it's gonna be fun and games, because it's work. That's why they call it 'work'. Get a job to better yourself as a person and to gain life experience.

If you don't want to get a job, then don't. Continue playing your video games, concentrate hard on your schoolwork and get excellent grades, and good luck when you're done with higher education and are dumped into the real world — and I mean that genuinely, with all my heart. Those student loans don't repay themselves, and there's a good chance you'll wind up working beneath your buddy at Popeyes' for at least a while before you find anything to do within your field of study. It's rough being in your mid-twenties and having to shop around with your resume with nothing but academic stuff on it. I've watched it happen to good friends of mine.

I don't think you should get a job.

Yes. We are built to need to do some kind of work, to have a purpose to work towards or in. Yes get a job and do it to appease me please.

Amen to that! It really is taxing on your pride to walk around with a resume that says you've got a good background in Test Technician and Repair work, but your major in college was Filmmaking. Still, it works well in interviews when I tell people that I was a director and I'm very good and leading others. Point is, College is not a magical solution. You won't graduate and have a job immediately unless you have great and I mean GREAT connections.

Sad thing is, and this is my own personal problem, I've got 20+ years of college debt to look forward to, I don't think my former college deserves a penny of it and even worse, I'll never want to work in the filmmaking career. When you go through the major for 3 years of your life, eventually learn that it won't be the career for you, and then AFTER college, AFTER applying for all those loans, you realize that your real passion was electronics all along, you kind of become bitter against higher education. Sorry for the rant, this is my own problem.

Still, if my experience helps anyone out, there it is. If you go to college for anything art related, don't even go. You don't need a degree to be an artist.

Do not get a job. You don't need some minimum wage position that will only eat your soul.

Hold out for your dream job. Do not settle for anything less. You can achieve anything if you set your mind to it, and that includes landing the perfect job right from the start without ever paying your "dues". Pfft, paying dues is for sheep, man. Don't fall into that trap. You only have one life, you should spend it the way you want to, even if that means relying on other people for life's basic necessities.

Can't tell if serious... >.>

...Yes, hold out for your dream job without ever working anything else, I'm sure they'll hire you on the spot when they look at your nearly blank, non existent resume...

And umm, relying on other people for life's basic necessities for too long will become: Living with parents when you're very old, Welfare, Homelessness, and basically poverty in general.

Great advice, Klimbatize.

_{@Retrowire: Psst. He's not serious. :3}