What jobs hire 15-year-olds?

I've had too many jobs and now no one wants to hire me!!!?

• Basically what the title states. My name is Jake, and I'm a 20 year old male with a job problem. As soon as I graduated high school, I immediately started looking for jobs and found one at this small pallet company near where I lived. I was there for about 6 months and got fired for not showing up one day... BIG MISTAKE, I know. So I learned from that and moved on to working at grocery store for 6 months. The pay wasn't great so I started looking for a warehouse job and found one that payed a little better than what I was making at the grocery store. I put in my weeks notice and began working as a picker for GSI Commerce making $9/hr. I didn't like the atmosphere or the people at that warehouse at all!(everyone was in a negative mood and just downright lazy!) So, when I heard that the Best Buy warehouse next door was hiring, I immediately put in my application and was out of GSI after being there for about a month and a half. Best Buy was fantastic when I first started working there. The people were great, the pay was better($10/hr) and I was getting a bunch of overtime opportunity. I absolutely loved it until my they transferred us from 1st shift to 3rd shift working only 6-hour shifts with no overtime. That is when it became unbearable and I quit about 2 months after I started working there. Throughout all of my work experiences, I've always worked hard, followed directions, and did everything I was told without complaining... how a good work ethic should be. One of my biggest problems, however, is that I was raised thinking that work was "just" something adults did, something we're expected to do, and I never was taught how jobs can help you accomplish personal goals or what goals I should set for myself. Until recently, having a job seemed like a chore to me... just something to do. I've been unemployed now for over 4 months and during this "time off" I've learned some things about myself such as what interests me, what I want, where I want to be in the next 5, 10, 20 years. I've set some major priorities and goals for myself and now, for the first time in my life, I actually NEED a good job, something that pays over $10/hr. I've been putting in applications at many big warehouses and some temp agencies and I've gotten quite a few interviews too. The interviewers seem to like me and my work ethic, but they all always tell me that companies won't want to hire me because I've held too many jobs for such small periods of time. Which brings me to my real question. How can I get someone to hire me when I've had too many jobs? What can I put on my resume that could mask the job history and highlight my work ethic? **Sorry for so much back-story. I felt that you all needed to know somethings about my work history and work ethic to provide me with the best answer possible. Thanks in advance! =)

• Answer:

  You're 20 years old. Nobody necessarily expects you to have any jobs on your resume. You can leave some or all of them off. Still, you're 20, not 16, so no resume/blank resume isn't great. What you really need is to "reinvent" yourself. One example would be college or a technical degree. If anyone asks what you were doing before then, you could say "various odd jobs" -- people will be more focused on the degree. Or military -- same thing. If college isn't your thing, consider CNC welding, OTR trucking or nursing. In all three fields, you can get the training to get a $15+/hour job in a year or two. If you hate all these ideas, here's one last one. The one job where you can make lots of money, it rarely matters what your educational background is and best of all, your job history doesn't matter much ... is sales. Commissioned sales to be exact. Since you only get paid for what you sell, nobody cares about anything else, like your job history. You are obviously articulate, that will help. Look around, there are sales jobs anywhere. You can start in retail but don't stay there long -- no money. Good luck!