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I'm 17 and ive been looking for a job for 8 months and still havnt found a job. i have tried connexions advisors and the job center but they jus dont help. i have been looking for a apprenticeship in plumbing or locksmith the course even costs 3000pound rufly and my mum doesnt work(no dad). what should i do?

Answer 1

Start working in maybe a restraunt as a waiter or dishwasher to save up the money for the apprenticeship. If not a restraunt then a fast food place or something. You gotta start somewhere and for a lot of teens(in highschool)there's not much out there for them unfortunately to do for a job. Good luck

Answer 2

Coming from a low income single parent family and only being 17 you will be entitled to money whilst you train - contact your local FE college for info on NVQ's and modern apprenticeships - you will receive an trainnee wage - its not much only about £45 a week (similar to the dole really) but the firm you are employed with as part of your placement may - at their discression - pay you extra.
Look into schemes such as New Deal and Bridge to Employment. Your local job centre / career advisor should provide you with the info.
Failing this take the initiative yourself - get out the yellow pages and look up plumbers / locksmiths in ur area and just ask if the would like to take on a trainee - would they pay you / and or would they support you in going to college 1-2 days a week to get the necessary qualifications.

Don't give up - there is something out there for you!! Good Luck

Answer 3

Go to your job centre or go on jobcentreplus.com I think you could get a part time job in a shop if you really needed the cash, you don't really need qualifications for that. Factory's will always take you too. Why don't you apply for a course at college. You wouldn't have to pay for that seeing as you're under 18. The college I went to had apprenticeships there too and it wouldn't cost £3,000. You can get grants from college if you can't afford some materials. I went to my local working links and I did a week course that helped you with your cv and job interview. I ended up with a job in nhs administration. Perhaps you should have a good think about evry single career you could do or want to do, then look them up on the web. Go to learndirect.com below. They have a list of possible careers and online courses eve help with applying for a grant. I have also put the jobcentreplus website.

Answer 4

We all WANT to do a certain kind of job, and as you've found generally what happens is something/everything gets in the way of what we want. You'll think there's going to be a way to do the course you want and have it paid for you; in the real world that tends not to happen.

The best advice i can give (having been there myself) is to get yourself into a big recognised company like Homebase, Tesco, etc and find out about their management programs.

I'm not saying you have to stay there till your 65; but these programs will teach you everything you need to know to get yourself into almost any position you fancy later in life. You'll also have a nice job, good pay, not too much stress as you learn.

Who knows - you might love it?
A good regular pay on a management program means money in your pocket and in your bank, a good car, a wee bit of status, a career and a future.

It's got to be better than doing the bins for the council or putting up fence posts in the rain, as some are doing for a living.


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Answer 5

Not the bad but yes it does hurt. To get an idea of it pinch yourself (with your nails) quite hard, the pain you feel will be Less then that. Be warned though the next few months will be annoying and sore, you wnt be able to sleep on that side and bummping it accidently will hurt badly. for about 3 months. You will want to take care of it with Sea Salt soaks twice a day, NO alcohol, no neosproin or bactine. Sea Salt is the best you can buy H2O Ocean which is a Sea Salt solution to spray. Every morning and night you will want to clean the cruties off with a q-tip dipped in warm water. Healing time is 6months to a year or more.

Answer 6

Scan the internet for ideas, and solutions to fixing plumbing problems within your own home, or self build some projects of your own, and buy the stuff to do the job, (they use plastic pipes nowadays, not 'Copper' or 'Lead') and build that magnificent piece of water working art. Be a self made plumber, eventually someone is going to want your skills, keep practicing.
Practice, Makes Perfect

Answer 7

Phone or visit every business that you know that suppies the business that you want to get into, if you want to be a plumber or locksmith, pester them and let them know how serious you are about the job!!! i don't know where you live but I know a couple of plumbers who'd die for a willing apprentice!!!!

Answer 8

Go to a building site and speak to the foreman.

Go to the local Cafes about 11am and speak to the guys in there.

Look in the local telephone directory and ring up Plumbers and locksmiths.

Look in your local paper at job advertisements and ring even if its skilled people they are looking for, you could get lucky!

Keep at it.

Answer 9

go back to your local job centre plus and tell them you want to enrol in a plumbing/locksmith course, funding is available for this under the CDL (career development loan) scheme where you canborrow up to 8,000 pounds to cover 100% of your course costs, check out this link for more info, i hope it helps and good luck.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/EducationAndLearning/AdultLearning/CareerDevelopmentLoans/CareerDevelopmentLoansArticles/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=10033237&chk=W2a/14

Answer 10

Join the military