Where should I apply

[paiged]

Anywhere that's hiring people your age is worth checking out at this point. I know around here jobs are scarce at the moment, as they are in a lot of places right now.

Construction is good money if you can handle it.
Retail is..well, money is money right?

Most people I know had their first jobs at fast food or ice cream places, though.

 

[jasoncyrus]

For your information, job =/= right to drive. If your own MOTHER thinks you can't drive very well, then thats seriously saying something. That somehting being you're liable to kill people in your roaming metal box of death.

Also, you're 16, I assume you are in the US since they allow driving at the age (a stupid decision since most 16 year olds are about as trustworthy as a pack rat cleptomaniac in a trinket shop), unless you are paing for your own college, the need for a job is...minimal at best. If you have any brains you are still mooching off your parents at this point. Trust me, independence...not as good as people say. Although its probably to afford binge drinking so meh, you wont notice it anyway. Just remember drink + driving = you in prision for most of your life, and to make the consequences of this clear o<---your butt before prison...(_)<---your butt after prison.

 

[DrunkenKitty]

Retail sucks. Food service sucks. Get a job working construction. You'll make way more money. You'll learn some valuable skills. You'll build some muscle mass and real world strength.

But isn't it kinda dangerous?
*says the paranoid girl who actually wears eye protection when changing a light fixture*

It can be dangerous, but probably not nearly as dangerous as driving there everyday. They wouldn't hire a teenager to work in a steel high-rise. He's really only qualified to work as an unskilled laborer. Which quite often means things like taking a pile of concrete mix/wood/bricks and making them into a another pile somewhere on the job site.

Sometimes, his work day might include easy and safe jobs like changing light fixtures.

I'm 32 and I've had lots of different jobs in various fields and one of the ones I look back on most fondly was working for a company that poured flooring for radiant heat floors. It revolved around lots and lots of 80 pound bags of gypsum concrete. I drove a Bobcat mini-bulldozer which was really fun. I was really tan and ripped and my confidence was through the roof.

 

[Cortheya]

BEST BUY!!!! I would love to work there

 

[The Giggling Pin]

Apply everywhere. It may or may not help but do this. Go to every shop, factory, barbers, and place where jobs are and then beg for a job and hope this works. If not you could always whore yourself out for a bit but i would imagine if your mum won't let you drive she won't let you become a working girl/guy.

 

[Corpse XxX]

Start painting houses in the summer time.. Make loadsa money in a short amount of time..
But i guess applying online would be difficult..

 

[Syntax Error]

I want to apply online because I have a problem asking for applications from real people. Its just too hard. I know that if I apply online then meet them it will be easier.

Well it's high time to change that aspect of yourself. Remember that in most instances, you're going to have to take the initiative. Better start young.

 

[Biek]

I started as a stocker in a supermarket in the evenings to make some money next to school. But I got tired of it in about 6 months, I wanted to quit but my boss convinced me to stay. Then that asshole fired me. (I had plenty of revenge vandalizing the building)

After I graduated I started working at a steel cable company where I work to this day. I got the job through a employment office. You might want to check one of those out.

 

[Iskenator67]

Your asking a bunch of video game hounds from around the world for career advice?

 

[Agent Larkin]

Try the board of directors for Microsoft they'll be so stunned they might just do it.

On a serious note i would say your local shop.

 

[solidstatemind]

About all I have to add is that, if you're so shy that you don't want to actually ask for an application, you should probably target jobs where you don't have to deal with the public-- (actually, you should, and thus be forced to get over your shyness, but you can do that on your second job) like a stocker in a grocery store, or something. The hours are going to suck, and you're going to feel like you're not getting paid enough, but guess what?

That's why they have to pay you to be there.

 

[Ancientgamer]

=P Don't forget a resume too.

If it's your first job and you're in high school, how can you have a resume?

 

[Sevre]

=P Don't forget a resume too.

If it's your first job and you're in high school, how can you have a resume?

I'm in the same situation as the OP and I have a resume.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Try looking around for apprenticeships, you get paid and learn a trade, could set you up for life or if at the end you decide it's not for you then you've still got lots of valuable work experience.

 

[Bofus Teefus]

Mail order pharmacies typically have weekend positions for clerical duties. It's good starting pay and easy work. Wac Arnolds is also hiring.

 

[Grimm91]

In this economy I would say anywhere.

 

[thiosk]

stay in school, stupid

work at a grocery store and you'll see why i make the above suggestion.