I need job help

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So for the past like two years I've been trying to get a job near where I live. And I fucked up pretty hard... Early on in my job search I was offered not one but two jobs, one at a Chick-fil-A and on at some sub place. I turned them both down because I was sixteen at the time and for some reason was dumb enough to think I could do better than fast food. Ever since then, every single application I've made has been met with failure and I'm getting close to just giving up.

I'd like to think I do decently well in interviews and whatnot, I can talk to peoole easily and most of the people I talk to generally like me. But I just look so unimpressive on paper. I've only worked one other job at an ice cream place for little under a year and that's about it, I never even learned register. Plus I think my old manager might be talking shit about me to these places (we didn't see eye to eye politically and I could tell she didn't like me by how she acted and talked to me, plus she was constantly cutting my hours in favor of people who had been there longer and who she liked.)

Every place I've allowed to contact my previous employer, they've turned me down, the first two however offered me the job because and they didn't ask about my previous employment.

Here's my biggest issue, do I just not put down my ONLY work experience? Potentially making myself look even WORSE on paper (and also lie about my employment history) or do I tell them my history and risk my old manager trashing me.

I legit have no idea what to do and I need the money...