Just join the military.

I have ulcerative colitis and IBS, can't. But sometimes I just want to leave my state and experience something new, wouldn't be such a bad idea. Basically I feel lazy for not working enough for my age. I have three months manufacturing experience, one year retail, and subbed for a class a few times. Plus some volunteer events scattered in there.

Become a successful drug lord and you can be anything you want

Everyone needs a pizza guy.

just gonna reiterate that you don't need any credentials to become an entrepreneur, just an idea and a lot of determination

Construction work. Start out as a laborer in construction. Pay is usually above minimum wage. Stay a while. Learn stuff. They'll start asking you about trades. Trades are your real money makers. They'll pay you to go to school and learn a trade. Unless of course america has shit for trades and construction workers too, it is a good way of making money.

This pretty much.  I made good money doing labor, plus it does provide good opportunities.  I started unloading Ethanol from trains, which brought me to refueling aircraft.  I was working towards doing a season in Antarctica doing the same thing then got sidetracked by something else, but the point is labor is a legit industry.  I've been hired for completely unrelated jobs purely because it shows I can tolerate a certain level of suck.  Plus it's a hell of a lot more colorful than sitting inside all day.  There's also programs out there where people will pay you to go through training for welding and stuff, then give you a pay increase when you finish the training (at least in my area, but the point remains that stuff like this exists).

If you're hoping for $40,000 right off the bat, then I recommend some form of labour job, although you'll be competing with 16-18 year olds, whom employers would normally prefer to hire because of their age. An apprenticeship should get you a fair bit of weekly pay, and you'll be able to work your way to full pay pretty quickly if you juggle that with trade school.

My only other suggestion would be to keep grinding with the shit jobs until you can get out of the rut. I've submitted well over 250 job applications in the 2 and a bit years since finishing High School, and so far not one has showed the slightest hint of interest in me, so I've been in a <$2000/year job for 6 years now. Just keep at it fam.

Just go and live with a nice kangaroo family.

Quote from: Rocketman287 on February 13, 2016, 02:05:09 AM

Just go and live with a nice kangaroo family.

Not ready to take my Kick Boxing to that level yet fam, give me another 6 weeks of training.

But they'll train you. Unfortunately despite being a human adult, the joeys will use you as a punching bag at first. Yes the kangaroo children will assert their dominance over you. But eventually you'll get sick of Joey #5 kicking your ass and you'll learn.

If I ever need to feel better about myself I just come and read one of Roman's threads

Quote from: aSMARTfeminist on February 13, 2016, 03:16:16 AM

If I ever need to feel better about myself I just come and read one of Roman's threads

Yeah...I worked an entire year part-time and only made $5,000. If that isn't a failure I don't know what is. And it finally dawned on me just how terrible that is.

Could have made $0 and got fired immediately.

There is, but it might not be in your field, anywhere nearby or pay as much as you'd like. And I'm 23 as well and haven't made anything close to 21k in my entire life. What does that matter?

Wow you failure
















Plz no ban

>Turning 24 in April
>Have only made $21,000 my whole life
>Father thinks I'm a failure
>Need to invent a time machine and go back in time and become an engineer like him to make 75K a year

Brooooooo in your whole life?

That was my reported taxable income fro 2015.

What is Roman's degree?

some kind of History major