How old do you have to be to get a waitressing job in NYC?

Is my family right when they tell me that I'll never get a job in NYC?

• I'm a 31 year old single guy. I work a part time job. I graduated from college in 2007 with a degree in television production. My part time job is as a paper carrier. I can't even get a job at a local tv news station. It has been my dream to move to NYC since I was 17. After college I was supposed to move to NYC with a cousin of mine. He told me that he was going to wait a year to earn more money. I said I was cool with that and that I could wait. A few months later I find out that he has already moved to NYC with a friend of his. He had no intention of moving there with me at all. He is now a successful business man there and um still stuck in my home state working a part time job. My family keeps telling me that I need to give up in my dream. That, if it hasn't happened by now, it never will. They keep telling me that I've been out of college too long and that noone will hire me. That my degree is now worthless. Are they right? Should I forget about ever moving to NYC? Am I, basically, screwed? What am I supposed to do now?

• Answer:

  They can be wrong. You have to try. That's all.