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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 630742" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>MWM, I appreciate your input, but with all respect, you are wrong about 100% of jobs being online applications. I know this for a fact because <em>I've</em> picked up paper applications from several places that don't have online apps - (two grocery stores and a mom&pop fast food place) I picked up one at the grocery store today. (Yeah, I shouldn't bother, but I was there and the applications were laying there in plain sight by the register so wth.) Sure, the big places like Wal-mart, etc. are all on-line...but not everywhere. Granted, he hasn't been looking much and I agree - he doesn't want to work, but he has no choice. He was online today trying to put in at Kmart, which should be hiring soon. I say trying, because after the application they had three "assessments" you had to go through and the darn website had a "critical error" at the start of the 2nd one and it made him shut down the browser. I know, because I was sitting right next to him. (Yeah, that was unpleasant...he doesn't react well to things like that and really, I'd have been a bit ticked off myself...he'd been at it almost an hour at that point.) He also definitely went to the local career center, because I gave him 1/2 and hour after he said he was going and did a GPS on his cell phone. Low and behold - there he was. He has a friend here (one of the few I actually approve of) who is going with him on Monday to a job fair at a local book publishing plant. I know they will go, because his friend has a job now, lives on his own (in a house-sharing situation) and is looking for a different place of his own, but he is working fast food and really wants a better job and his mom has worked at that plant for years. He's a fairly responsible kid and I hope mine starts hanging out with him more.</p><p></p><p>I think you skipped over the part of my posts where I said the money is done. He didn't get it last week and he won't be getting any more. He gets the car one more week, and gas, but that's it. After that he will be walking.</p><p></p><p>He does have some money, when he gets it. He sold his computer to his friend (the same one going to the job fair) and he pays him a bit every two weeks when he gets paid. So far it hasn't been much. I told him not to, and to wait for a lump sum, but he didn't. I just hope that it doesn't effect their friendship in the end. He used to be friends with this kid before he started hanging out with all the stoners and it would be good for him to have a hard-working friend again.</p><p></p><p>Of course there's drugs, I'm not an idiot. But, I do think that, at this point, it's only pot or (worse in my opinion) the "potpourri" junk. But he's been very honest about that. Last summer he was smoking several times a week, we could tell. During "school" (and I use the term lightly) he told us today that he was smoking every other day on average. But he also says he's only done it once since coming home. I suspect more...but it's certainly not like last year. I see a definite difference.</p><p></p><p>So yeah, the job thing is a problem. He doesn't seem to be able to get his head around that fact that job hunting needs to be a full time job in itself and putting in a couple of places every once in a while isn't enough. And he needs to quit getting so bent out of shape when things go wrong. Job hunting is boring, tedious and disappointing, none of which he handles well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 630742, member: 17309"] MWM, I appreciate your input, but with all respect, you are wrong about 100% of jobs being online applications. I know this for a fact because [I]I've[/I] picked up paper applications from several places that don't have online apps - (two grocery stores and a mom&pop fast food place) I picked up one at the grocery store today. (Yeah, I shouldn't bother, but I was there and the applications were laying there in plain sight by the register so wth.) Sure, the big places like Wal-mart, etc. are all on-line...but not everywhere. Granted, he hasn't been looking much and I agree - he doesn't want to work, but he has no choice. He was online today trying to put in at Kmart, which should be hiring soon. I say trying, because after the application they had three "assessments" you had to go through and the darn website had a "critical error" at the start of the 2nd one and it made him shut down the browser. I know, because I was sitting right next to him. (Yeah, that was unpleasant...he doesn't react well to things like that and really, I'd have been a bit ticked off myself...he'd been at it almost an hour at that point.) He also definitely went to the local career center, because I gave him 1/2 and hour after he said he was going and did a GPS on his cell phone. Low and behold - there he was. He has a friend here (one of the few I actually approve of) who is going with him on Monday to a job fair at a local book publishing plant. I know they will go, because his friend has a job now, lives on his own (in a house-sharing situation) and is looking for a different place of his own, but he is working fast food and really wants a better job and his mom has worked at that plant for years. He's a fairly responsible kid and I hope mine starts hanging out with him more. I think you skipped over the part of my posts where I said the money is done. He didn't get it last week and he won't be getting any more. He gets the car one more week, and gas, but that's it. After that he will be walking. He does have some money, when he gets it. He sold his computer to his friend (the same one going to the job fair) and he pays him a bit every two weeks when he gets paid. So far it hasn't been much. I told him not to, and to wait for a lump sum, but he didn't. I just hope that it doesn't effect their friendship in the end. He used to be friends with this kid before he started hanging out with all the stoners and it would be good for him to have a hard-working friend again. Of course there's drugs, I'm not an idiot. But, I do think that, at this point, it's only pot or (worse in my opinion) the "potpourri" junk. But he's been very honest about that. Last summer he was smoking several times a week, we could tell. During "school" (and I use the term lightly) he told us today that he was smoking every other day on average. But he also says he's only done it once since coming home. I suspect more...but it's certainly not like last year. I see a definite difference. So yeah, the job thing is a problem. He doesn't seem to be able to get his head around that fact that job hunting needs to be a full time job in itself and putting in a couple of places every once in a while isn't enough. And he needs to quit getting so bent out of shape when things go wrong. Job hunting is boring, tedious and disappointing, none of which he handles well. [/QUOTE]
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