Hey everyone. I'm in a predicament at the moment.
I'm currently on youth allowance and am receiving payments every fortnight. The thing is with centrelink, is that you can't get a (tax) paying job otherwise you won't get paid youth allowance. You could opt for cash-in-hand work but it gets messy and can get risky as well. The payments I receive right now are approx equivalent to a 16 year old working 10 hours a week.
I currently don't have a job, but I need one for experience. However, if I were to get a tax-paying job, like Maccas for example, I'm quite sure I'd be put on casual and am risking quite heavily the possibility of getting 1 shift a week for example (one of my mates gets a 3 hour shift at work every week), which is shit as it's not sustainable and I'm better off getting youth allowance payments anyways. Cash-in-hand work is out of the picture.
What can I do right now? I'm a jaffy so I have approx 5 years until I would get a full-time job. Do I just endure no working experience for 5 years?