Moving Out: A nessisary need for life, or an inconvienent cultural item?

[Dxoh]

Apparently there is. People have mentioned to me that it's a factor. Maybe they're just talking nonsense, idk. Bottom line though, even McDonald's has outright rejected me numerous times.

There is such a thing as over qualification. Lower end jobs can be hesitant to hire experienced or educated individual, under the expectation that any individual will leave as soon as a higher paying job comes along. Highly qualified individuals are more likely to receive those job offers, so it isn't worth it to the company to risk spending time and money training them, just for them to leave soon after.

[Jannah]

There is such a thing as over qualification. Lower end jobs can be hesitant to hire experienced or educated individual, under the expectation that any individual will leave as soon as a higher paying job comes along. Highly qualified individuals are more likely to receive those job offers, so it isn't worth it to the company to risk spending time and money training them, just for them to leave soon after.

Well that's the thing. I don't have any qualifications really except for my high school diploma and a couple college courses. I'm just really smart.

[Dxoh]

Well that's the thing. I don't have any qualifications really except for my high school diploma and a couple college courses. I'm just really smart.

Then, maybe you are just bad at interviews, your resume is dysfunctional, or they just aren't hiring. It is very doubtful that "just really smart" has anything to do with your unemployment.

[Jannah]

Then, maybe you are just bad at interviews, your resume is dysfunctional, or they just aren't hiring. It is very doubtful that "just really smart" has anything to do with your unemployment.

My resume is fine. I have had many people look over it and they have even helped me with. Interviews being bad is a possibility, but it's unlikely since I never even get to that stage. I pretty much just hand in apps and resumes and get like one followup on the phone and then nothing.

[Nartivus]

I feel fothe some guys after reading bits of the thread. I am 20, and have not lived with my parents since I was 16. And no I wouldn't trade it for the world. The only bad and most aggravating part is employment and a place to live while going to school and having the money to do shit after the bills. But once a kid is 18 he should def move out of your moms house after college. I have learned the hard way its hard to hold down college and work at the same time. Keeping the job with the economy even though no matter how bad it is or how much it blows is a most now a days because no one really wants to hire you.

[Blue Tempest]

And why should they Nart? Just because it's a arbitrary number? Because it's a cultural thing that grew during a time when it was better to do so, but now is much harder? Or because it makes you a "man" to force yourself to suffer like a masochist?

[Valcherion]

Eh, I moved out when I was eighteen due to personal reasons, but I was never really forced or had the expectation to move out brought down on me. Granted, I'm Filipino, and most people live with their parents until they're in their mid-twenties or something, mainly due to financial reasons.

[Foster]

It stems back to the squatter's rights acts.

Once you become a legal definition of a 'person', you are elligiable to hold land.

So in effort to get a land-grab, once you turned 18 you went-out and staked a claim.

It's pretty much obsolete these days. Although it does give you privacy, if you decide to pursue romantic relations while disregarding their approval or lack therof.