Comments on Profile Post by SonnyBassPlayer

Awesome, I just found someone who wanted an experienced helper to wash dishes. GG.

Actually, over here, you pretty much need experience to do everything.

Which is funny because in order to get a job, you need experience, but to get experience you need a job. They rarely count charity work as experience.

I see you are from Scotland! Europe's not so good with jobs it seems.. anyway the situation is the same here, no experience, no nothing. All the people I know of my age found jobs because relatives own small busynesses, and they get in it. I also read of announcements saying "Needing apprentice with experience", and than my mind blow up.

Yeah, it's pretty horrible.

*Didn't see your second comment before posting mine* That's the point, the problem. And you know what is even funnier? That stages and apprenticeships last no longer than 4 moths usually, thus giving little to none of the experience requested by companies. I only read "over 1 year" in announcements... :/

Yep, that was the problem I had for a long long time. It was so bad.

How did you manage to solve it?

I didn't. I gave up with job-searching.

Brazil has a lot of that too. I've gratuated technician in Industrial Chemistry when I was 17, thought that'd make me sort of 'special', but all they want is experience or a recommendation letter from someone who already works for that company :( I rage quit chemistry job search this year, 4 years later xDD