I Just Don't Want A Job?

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I am 19 and I have been out of high school for more than several months. During the September and October months I have been taking a 1 and a 1/2 hour long IT class where we talk about finding a job. Lately I have been lazy and I for some reason I just don't want a job at all. I am worried that I might be working like: 10 hour shifts each day or something or that it will distrupt my free time. But then again I have nothing going on in my life besdes the IT class so it really dosent matter if I work 10 to 15 hours a day. I don't really know how to get into a job or how to get motivated. I would like to know what should I do?

current trends for most workers are for part-time work, as employers don't wanna hire full-timers [with expensive bennies] unless they are forced to.

Just say you can't find anything, even looking I can't find one.


Farm Egg collector: A 50, 40, 30 and everything in between showed up. I didn't get the job. There was a CROWD of people applying for this tiny job..

How do you plan to support yourself? Put a roof over your head? Buy food? Power? Heat? Internet?

If you are fortunate to live in a European nation or a country with a good welfare system where the government can provide its citizens with health care, public housing, clothing, food vouchers or money handouts you are on easy street. If you live in a country with limited or no welfare system, well you are forced to work in order to survive.

Anyway a job is usually more than just an income, it gives you a purpose and forms part of your identity. If you are a lucky, a job may lead to a career and be something that you enjoy doing.

^^ Agree.

The money for welfare comes from taxes that other people pay, it's a public safety net the human race has decided to impliment so we don't leave people to rot if they can't afford to live. Not meant to be used as a free ride.


A job should be a way to make money, making it a part of your identity is a mistake.

I never wanted a job either when I was 19. Now I'm 38 and I've had a few jobs. The key is to find a job doing something you actually like, then it feels like a treat to go to it every day. One of my jobs was like that, but then the company put me to doing some other crappy thing. If you're going into IT, which is what I worked in actually, make sure it is something you'd do in your free time. A lot of the programmers I worked with were like that. They'd work all day then go home and code pet projects.

A lot of people think of work as giving them purpose, but I have never been able to think that way. If I'm not passionate about what I'm doing then I'm just miserable.

You can always change careers. People used to do one thing all their lives but the world no longer works that way for the most part.

I never wanted a job either and still don't. There is nothing that I would enjoy doing and slaving away for the rest of my life to barely earn enough to keep myself from being homeless and starving isn't very appealing. Working also means almost no time to do anything but work. The time I did have a job I was so stressed and exhausted that all I did was work and sleep.

It doesn't help any that I can't even find any place I could even apply to where I'd meet the requirements for the job and be able to do the job. Even if I wanted one I wouldn't be able to get one. Most jobs want you to have an education, experience, and a license and/or a car. I don't have any of these things. I'm also too socially anxious to work with customers all day.

bread and circuses will be in our foreseable future.

Civ, Honey, try not to worry too much. Very few people have a clear vision of what kind of work they want to do for a career at your age. Our constantly changing technology and workforce needs mean very few people stay in the same career for their entire working lives. You probably won't be tied into anything for years and years on end.

As others have mentioned, chances are good you will be working part-time, at least at first. This might be a good way to adjust to working and find a balance between work liife and the rest of life.