Paying to find young person a first job

[mothersdaywoe]

Has anyone tried this, its not expensive £500 for coaching, CV analysis, career advice BUT no guarantee of employment at the end.
Its been a year now, DC is depressed and failing further and further behind

I have found the way in which @mothersdaywoe has spoken and reacted to people on this thread to be shocking. Perhaps some of the recommendations might not have been to her taste (or in one case not entirely legal), but to shame people who have taken to writing, many at great length, and trying to help is absolutely and totally out of order.

I’m confused. What exactly does your daughter want to do? I’m getting the impression from OP’s posts that there’s a sense of entitlement going on expecting to land dream job straight away. The job market doesn’t work like that. Sometimes you have to work a job that the economy needs….

When the phone rang when I was young, I always jumped to answer it - hoping it was a friend calling for me.

I had just turned 16 and the phone rang - I remember it was late afternoon and I answered in my parent’s bedroom - that was a thousand years ago so I’ve no idea why I remember.
Oh yeah - the treachery.
This very nice lady who acted like she knew me wanted to know if I would like to work for her at the packing house (packing houses where I live pack fruit - in 9000 degree weather).
I was completely caught off guard, so I said OK.
And I had to pack figs - smelly, awful, impossible figs.
They paid by the piece and the ladies there made a fortune. I was so bad at it and so slow, they had to pay me by the hour.
That was my first job.
*Years later it dawned on me - the lady who originally called me - how did she know I had just turned 16 and legal to work and ihad my drivers license and had the family’s old station wagon to get around in?^
MY DAD OWNED A PACKING HOUSE AND SHE WORKED FOR MY DAD!!!
MY DAD CALLED HER AND HAD HER CALL ME TO GO TO WORK — I MEAN GO TO TORTURE!!
I swear it was treachery by my dad hahaha

It was an excellent lesson, though.
I never packed any kind of fruit again. Ever.
Aftwr that summer I found a job working for lovely people at a lovely flower shop.
Everybody likes to get flowers. 🌹