I'm 17 years old and I just left home to study in the city by myself. I know lots don't have that opportunity and I don't want to seem ungrateful but I've been finding this really difficult. I literally don't know anyone out of the hundreds of thousands of people here. My apartment is plain and bare and according to my neighbour there was a suicide here (a real cheer up). The campus is frankly horrible and I feel hated there for absolutely no reason because they all think I'm too young. My parents are a long way from here so a phone call a week is all the friendly contact I'm getting. I've been to three job applications and they've all been unsuccessful (my first three ever), plus I don't have a lot of money left to buy all my meals so a job is really urgent. I just don't understand why it has to be this way, there was nothing for me back home and the people I knew encouraged me to do this. But as I sit here completely alone and hungry on my laptop in some shabby room in a hateful craphole of a city, I'm really starting to regret aspiring to more than working on a farm for the rest of my life. | |
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try the clubs in your school and the social events to meet new people. you are a stranger in a new city. does your school not help students find jobs? don't they have a career center and all that good stuff? utilize everything the school has to offer. as far as food goes, you do not even have a few dollars? just so you can go out and buy some ramen noodles or tuna which costs like $1-2. ask your parents to send you a bit of $$ for food expenses until you do find a job. 3 is not a bad number. remember that you have never had a job before. keep looking on craigslist and indeed and backpage.com. good thing is that there are jobs in cities to be found. a lot of places that say students welcome and like hiring college students. so keep trying. i wish you luck.
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