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@bezini (44)
United States
October 4, 2009 12:16pm CST
Why is it so hard for anyone under 18 to get a job? yes, i am aware that we're in a recession at the moment, but still, i do think that we're just as qualified to wait tables as a fifty year old man with his bachalors degree is...
5 responses
@wmraul (2552)
• Bucharest, Romania
4 Oct 09
Do you know at 18 to do what an 30-50 y old one know ? Do you have his life and/or job experience ?
@bezini (44)
• United States
4 Oct 09
you right, i don't have the same life experience as a 30-50 year old, but i still can't say that it's fair, or even wise of a prospective employeer to choose someone for a certain job, just because he was older. i was actually just beaten out for a job by a 43 year old man for a waiter/waitress position at a local retaraunt, and though he had a college degree in accounting, i was the one with more experience in that feild, having worked at several different restaraunts prior to my interview there. That doesn't seem like a wise decision to me, seeing as we were asked to look at the white board where the table assignments were laid out, and he couldn't figure it out.
• India
6 Oct 09
Its all about experience man. If u r expert or if u hav knowledge about the domain then definitely u would get the job even if u r under 18.
• United States
5 Oct 09
Teenagers are also affected by this economy. My parents are having problems with money so I have been trying to get a job but no one will look at be because I am under 16, though I am in the same kind of situation.
@tixepower (1195)
• Sweden
4 Oct 09
I'm 21 and it's still hard, everyone want experienced people but without a job we can't get experience! Good time we live in :)
@TrvlArrngr (4045)
• United States
4 Oct 09
because the older people have families to support and mortgages to pay. If they do not work we will have more foreclosures and families on welfare. This always happens. Even the colleges are full of older people trying to go back to learn a new skill.