What to look for as far as jobs?

You may have to drive within the state until you are 21. This subject has been on here before & usually the driver states he drove with a local smaller company, intrastate(within the state) until he is 21, then a whole new world will open up to you.
Does you school help with job placement?
If not, check Careerbuilder & Craigslist.

 

See if you can find a route you can do (fedex), and you will in the very least have some experience with a company when you go look for a job at 21.

 

Do a search for custom harvesters there will be about a hundred of them looking for truck drivers in the early part of April thru october,if you can stand to be away from home for 4 or 5 months and handle the 18 to20 hour days when it is not raining you Will know how to drive a truck when the season is finished. It will open your eyes to how important agriculture is in the USA. The harvesters are exempt from most of the rules like age and hours and so on.

 

Can't speak for these big custom harvesting outfits what they pay or what not. But growing up on a farm the hours and weeks were long when harvesting, the pay was low, but you made a fat checks (for me anyways being a teenager) that were really nice at the end of the week... It was sort of like training for being a company driver in a big truck, long hours, low pay with a "big looking" paycheck at the end of the week..


But you really ought to check that attitude at the door when you leave the house if you're going to do farm work. You're inexperienced... know nothing, entry level, suck it up and do what you're told maybe you might learn something. Might even motivate you for something bigger in life. You're not gonna be a bossman as soon as you sign up... Good luck..