Job History I am 19

Keeping a job once you have one is a good idea. I'm thinking that you are wanting to improve the way you will look to a carrier once you've reached age 21. My experience in the jobs I've had over the years where I did some of the hiring says, "If you have a job but have an opportunity to improve your situation, not just monetarily, then take the opportunity, but only if you are dead certain you can stay with it for awhile." When looking at prospective employees' work history, I was never turned off when each new employer they went to was a step up or at least a good lateral move.
Whatever you do, bust your butt, learn how to take direction, learn how to keep your ego in check, show up on time (on time means 10-15 minutes early) for your shift, when things are slack look for something to do....there's always something to do!!!
Good luck, young man! Hope to see you on the road someday. Oldnew...

 

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"If there's time to lean, there's time to clean"


.......... Jim

 

Im going to use your advice because I just got hired by the US Census today and I start working on the 26 of this month and I need to learn how to wake up early and arrive to work on time .

 

I'm encouraged to see someone of your age actually taking a pro active part in your professional life. Hats off to you. The saying goes, "if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail" the sooner you can digest that the better off you'll be.

Now while driving wasnt mentioned in the post, Im going to assume it was about a driving job, and while I wouldnt take my word for it, and it might be different in Kentucky but most insurance companies wont touch a driver under 25. Again dont take my word for it, just what iver heard.

My advice:
If I was 19 again, I would beg, borrow or steal to get into college. Get whatever education is available to you, now more then ever the way of the world is what you know, not what you can do.

Good Luck,
Bosco

 

Some of the large companies that offer training will take him at 21. All i can tell you try to keep whatever job you can get as long as possible DO NOT job hope that will hurt you in the long run. These guys are right always something to do find something never stand around. Try never to be late,don't whine about the job while at work.just let it out in route to home or before you leave the drive from work . And if you have a family or one nearing something I learned while in the army, Leave work at work and home at home .Something many people don't do and it causes problems at one or the other.

 

I can't agree with the advice to get in college. The way the job market is, by the time you graduate college there probably won't be many jobs for your specific branch, but it really depends on the type of work you plan on doing. It is a good idea to have something to fall back on .... however I found out how hard it is to be motivated in something that you have no care about.

The 9-5 job market is pretty easy in terms of advancement. As the other people said, "time to lean is time to clean" and try to be 10 minutes early for all your shifts. Aaannndd, the best advice I could give is to speak up (just make sure you've put in the time). Manager's will not go out of their way for your benefit, so you have to tell them you want more hours, or a raise, or whatever the subject may be. And just try to work harder than everyone else.

 

my advice to you is go find a dock job at an LTL trucking company in your area

i was 18 when i started at roadway, tell them in the interview you are interested in becoming a driver...some companies will train you, old dominion does i believe

my company doesnt train but they let me go out in the yard and mess around with the equipment....even though i was on my own, that was extremely valuable...i spent hundreds of hours out there and all kinds of deisel fuel....would of cost thousands if i had to pay somebody to let me use there equipment and fuel

 

I agree, college isn't always the answer. I'm a recent college graduate and SO many people go to college just because it's the thing society says to do. Some never complete school, some go into majors in fields that just won't lead to careers (History, Art, Some languages just don't have good career prospects) and never work in their field. Besides, it takes up a huge amount of time, money and patience. Some even spend years in college racking up crazy amounts of debt bouncing around from major to major, and of course the schools encourage it.

I'd look more at job training and technical schools. These tend to me cheaper, no BS places where you can learn some skills that lead DIRECTLY to a job.