Where do you find job skills?

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Where do you find job skills if on SSI? I guess that's something about rehab. The other job question is what's the purpose of working a job? The known answer is to make money to survive. Working a job is not fun.

Volunteer jobs can be a great source of building skills when you don't have a paid position.

Working a job isn't fun if you don't like the job.. sometimes you just have to do what you have to do, but ideally you find a job you enjoy working with people you like & then working can be a lot of fun.

Through something called Vocational Rehabilitation. There's some posts about it on WP.

I find that it gets mixed results--but it's worth a try.

it's not going to be fun, if the only purpose you work is to make money. there's gotta be a greater motivation than that if you want to enjoy it...like being with people you like, or the satisfaction of just doing what you like to do. or contributing to something greater, if you feel that. i haven't had a paid position like this, just a few volunteer opportunities all over the place. but i long for the day.

of course, can't forget whatever hobbies (or obsessions) one may have had in youth, when pursuing these you build/use skills that are useful later in life.

Work is usually not fun. The purpose of it is to make money to live on. Also, the purpose is to create goods and services that others need. Working is contributing to society by providing things for someone else's needs.

As for learning job skills most of the time you either learn them in college or you learn them on the job. My boys learned construction work from going to work with my husband and helping him at work and going to work with the dads of their friends and helping them out. Thats how most construction skills are learned by boys down here. When my oldest son was 12 he and his friend would go to work with the friend's dad who was a roofer. He put the boys to work helping out and cleaning up afterwards and bringing them shingles and nails and stuff on the roof. Over time they learned to do the actual roofing and got summer jobs doing that. They did the same thing with laying carpet and tile, etc.

I learned a lot of my skills on the jobs where I was hired. Many places have entry level positions and you just have to be willing to learn. Office and retail work are are the things I usually did that have learn on the job positions. The PI, bounty hunter, vet tech, vet anesthesia, personal assistant, op-ed columnist and magazine contributor, waitress and bartender in a titty bar, insurance paramed, scrub tech, neonatal tech, nurses aide, doula, etc jobs I've had were all things that I mainly learned on the job too, although some of them required me to have skills or knowledge in advance of being hired, but overall I learned to do the particular job while I was doing it.

You just need to find a job that will be willing to teach you how to do it when they hire you. You do have to be a fairly quick learner for this type of thing because most places won't tell you more than two or three times before they fire you because you can't do the work.

Also, you mentioned SSI, so that probably means you can only earn so much money before they cut your SSI. If I were you I'd find something for cash under the table then, that way it won't mess with your SSI income. There are lots of construction jobs that will pay that way and also landscaping (actual landscaping, not just cutting grass). You can look on Craigslist for stuff like that. What is your age and sex? Those will have factors in what kinds of work you will be able to do. An example would be that no contractor will hire a 68 year old lady to do clean up on a construction site.

That's a good long story but, I'm age 24. I don't learn fast, but am able to pick it up later as a learning experience. The question is, what's wrong with going to vocational rehabilitation? But I would agree with working under the table, to earn money where I'm at as far as the situation go's. I can't drive. I'm not allowed to go to vocational rehab and there's no way of getting there myself.

All those "rehab/vocational" things are just goverment waste ,I wouldn't bother with them.


Fact is there is no "skills" to learn ,just go to Walmart and apply .

Totally agreed. If anyone looks at my resume, I am volunteer positions listed on there. I am on the board of directors for two local nonprofits. I did volunteer work in accounting at a nonprofit. Don't discount doing volunteer work if needing to fill a resume. You never know who will read your resume and take note that you worked at such and such nonprofit. Could result with someone who may very well take a copy of your resume because that person knows of someone else who could use someone with your skills. I did a lot of networking as an undergraduate in college and recommend that people network with as many people as possible. I am on LinkedIn, etc.

First question: volunteering, or just finding some way to gain the skills. (For example, if you wanted to be a musician, practise your instrument.)

Second question: Besides money, it gives you something to do, gets you out of the house, and gives you independence and a sense of self-respect.

Not everyone hates their job.

I liked my last job. Just turned out not to be a good fit.

Why do you say there is no skills to learn? It's assumed there is job skills to learn and
not so easy. How would one find the job skills if that's a government waste?

Finding some way to gain the job skills but it, looks confusing weither a job is fun or not
fun. Working a job doesn't feel it would be fun, only earning the money part of working
a job is fun.