Getting work is pretty easy for me. But: a) my town is not serious about good workers. b) The plan is to go to school in september and work in that area instead, but the university I want is not coming back to me promptly. c) I've lost my birth certificate AND my passport (idiot) preventing me from getting manual work and they don't take digital copies or other ID. So I am stranded and in limbo.
Getting a job requires you do the following:
1. Look at your area. Learn about the big recruitment agencies, local HQs and big companies, biggest employers, industrial estates, high streets, the town history. Understand why the town exists in the first place. It probably specialized in something: vehicles, vehicle sales, gas, utilities, law, flower arranging. This will give meaning to your job search. Maybe the area isn't right for you or you've been looking in the wrong place.
2. Look at the vacancies. You can usually split things into three general areas: manual labor, desk job/retail, professional. There is virtually always gigs going for the first two which most people can get even without certain soft or hard skills. Offices are too busy backstabbing to care if you're trained. Manual labor is something to avoid, to be honest imo. Professional is the jobs you get if you know someone. You don't know anyone, so get a call center job and work your way to an admin or controller position.
3. Get your resume together by finding a template on reddit or somewhere else online and literally copying it. Then carefully edit it until you are happy with it. Working a resume is nothing to do with your ego or being the best skilled, it is a process of pure marketing. You can be out of work for 10 years and get work.
4. Financial literacy. No point earning money if you will waste it. Learn about budgets, saving, pensions, credit card benefits, etc. For instance if you ever invest in the S&P, find a platform that will not charge custody fees.
5. The right attitude. But that is the final thing you need. First you need 1. the right environment, 2. the right vacancies and 3. good marketing then 4. good money and time handling skills.
"Professional" jobs are never someone who worked their way up from the bottom and had a strong handshake blah blah, these are people who got given their careers. They didn't work hard or achieve. So if you're not a professional lawyer, tradesperson, economist etc. don't feel bad, these people were literally handed their jobs. And they don't feel good for that either. Physicians have double the suicide rate of the regular population. All that prestige is not free, there are always the "hidden costs"