25 and still no job

Please help

>>18499645
You really think an employer is going to check if your previous work was legal? Just put it on ur CV

>>18500541
Why wouldn't they? I heard they even check facebook these days

Make it up.

>tell the truth and guaranteed get no job
>lie, get caught, guaranteed no job
OR
>lie and possibly get job

you're only options

>>18500546
Ive put down jobs I didn't really have and nothing bad happened. I got a job in a pharmacy after.

>>18499645
Future employer's don't won't can't know you did not pay taxes unless you tell them. Just list your job as if you'd worked for a major corporation.

>>18499645
Yeah they don't need to know about your tax status. List the job and say you paid taxes on it.

Unless it was like, human trafficking or whatever. Then definitely don't.

>>18500541
>>18501273
>>18501352
Several years ago, I applied for a job on which I put two things on my job application. One was my job at Walmart, the only real job I ever had by that point. The other was a job at my step-father's business. This was a holdover for job applications in the years prior where he told me to put that down under work experience to help my application look better, and I just keep it going forward.

I was contacted by the company I was applying to. They wanted to know more about that job because they found no signs that I worked that job while they could see that I worked for Walmart when they conducted the background check.

How did they verify I worked for Walmart? Because it showed up on my tax filings. While I may have actually helped my father in his business, it never would have shown up in the same way because I was never payed for any help I did.

They very much CAN check to see if the work OP described is on his tax returns. Many do not go through the effort to actually do so. If they do and raise a question about it, OP can do the same thing I did. Simply explain to them how it was your father's business that you were helping, and you weren't being payed for your work. For the record, I did get hired for the job I applied to, and enjoyed it for 6 months and 1 week until they cancelled the big project they hired me and a lot of other people for.

Now since OP's worried about what happens if he can't get a job, let me talk about what happened after that job. I applied for many jobs for several months and got no interest at all. Eventually, I gave up. I consider that last job to be a fluke and that I am generally unemployable due to lack of work experience and gaps in work experience.

So, now that I've given up on the idea of working for any company, ever, I've gone self-employed.

OP could potentially do the same, and could look at taking over his father's work as a starting place.