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My boyfriend said that when his two nieces and one nephew were teenagers they all got their first jobs at 16 or 17 years old. But all 3 of them were high school dropouts, didn't get any grades (because they didn't attend their exams), and they were involved in drugs in some way. But not just one but all three of them got hired in the first job interview they attended. One got a job waitressing at a restaurant, one got a job in McDonald's and the boy got a job in a military warehouse that actually paid good money.

I asked my boyfriend if he or his sister or any other adults related to them knew the people that managed these places or knew any of the employees that could have got them in the jobs but he said no, they were just random places they applied to and just got the jobs straight away.

I am so baffled by this because when I left school I had grades (not good grades really but still had grades) and had gone to college and done volunteering too, but it took me over 5 years before I finally got hired in a cleaning job, and that was because a relative of mine worked there and she got me in. And I wouldn't be in the job I'm in now if it wasn't for my boyfriend (he works there too).
So how on earth did these 3 high school dropouts with no qualifications or anything manage to get their first jobs so young, yet others like myself got rejection after rejection after rejection?
They are not much younger than me, so when they left school they left right in a recession where jobs were hard to come by and about 60 people would apply for one job.

Now they're in their late 20s and are all in high, well-paid jobs (one's a manager of a store, one's a builder and one's training to be a doctor - so she got into university without any grades to her name.

So this just shows that grades at school mean nothing. If I'd known this I would have dropped out of high school too, then maybe I would have got a job at 16.

I'll tell you why; not having any qualifications means that you are unlikely to get bored after three months and quit which is often what happens when you do have qualifications...this comes from a company I applied to but found out later that they don't employ intelligent people in grunt grade jobs......

My advice is don't put ANY qualification on an application unless it may be needed for the job.

It's called lying;


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Your situation is different from the nieces and nephew's situation

Every situation different

Every situation has a lot of factors that determine the outcome (job or nothing)

Different personalities, cities, years

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But based on wrong planet, it sounds like autistics have a much harder time getting jobs than neurotypicals. All things equal. Which they are not. Not a controlled experiment. Not a representative sample

Same Joe. I'm baffled. I dropped out of high school and couldn't get a job. I just wanted to be away from school and earn my own money. Couldn't even get a job peeling potatoes in a chip shop.

It was a year and a half before I found a job. I had to do a technical college course to get a foot in the door.

Because they're not autistic, made a good first impression, and interviewed well. Social skills.

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@ The OP.

My executive dysfunction and short term memory problems make me pretty much unemployable.
I just got lucky finding good people at a time it was easy getting a job.

Stop comparing yourself to other people.

I have a university degree. I graduated with honors. I won academic awards. Yet, I’m still just a clerk with 40 years of no promotions. I’m halfway a laughingstock in my family.

My brother barely got his high school equivalency diploma. He became a millionaire.

I’m still a good guy. And you’re still a good woman.

Were they known to be related to someone who was an important member in their local communities? If yes then that could explain it; even if no one put a word in for them directly, they might be seen as trustworthy and hard working people due to the connection. Or the ones who hired them might've wanted to suck up to that important figure.

Or maybe all three of them are really charismatic and charmed the interviewers?

The point I'm making is that grades mean nothing. If I knew this when I was younger, I wouldn't have bothered to turn up to my exams. I don't know why some teenagers stress so much about their exams.