[Joseph Dirt]

Hey all,

I'm 25 with no degree and a few years work experience as a busboy/server at a fairly cheap Italian restaurant. I'm thinking about moving to Vegas w/ friends but am concerned about finding work.

Do you think I'd be able to find something in the first 6 or so months?

I should probably add that I got a DUI last year (not sure if employers do background checks).

Thanks for the help.

[logline]

Stay home. Vegas is full of people like you. You are not employable.

Try interning and working for free for a few months with someone in a professional field that you have a genuine interest in... something that can become a career that you feel passionate about so that you'll stick to it and develop a long history. Consider going to school as well. Develop MARKETABLE skills. Busboys with DUIs ain't gonna cut it in life.

[Joseph Dirt]

Yeah but overall do you think I'd do ok in Vegas?

[PopsNegro]

You sound like a real go-getter. I'd say move to Vegas as quick as possible. And be sure you call it Vegas too, the natives love that.

[Joseph Dirt]

Thanks Pops, I'm pretty psyched about it. I have a buddy out there who laughed at me for calling it Las Vegas. He told me, "Everyone here calls it either Vegas or "The" Vegas, bro." lol, I can't wait to get down there and meet some people already!

[airics]

most of the employers do background checks.. with a dui, finding a job in a bar is going to be difficult if not impossible.... you can get a job here if minimum wage works for you..also a year worth of savings is what you will need to get a job.. and if you get the gambling bug, you'll be broke in a month

[Joseph Dirt]

Sounds like a tough road. Everyone had me believing Vegas was paradise...

[airics]

dui's and felonies rule ALOT of people out here...

[Jukesgrrl]

It's much easier to get skills and education in a town where you have lived for a long time, even if you don't like it. Don't move somewhere you have no business contacts and no access to educational assistance. I have lived all over the country and can tell you it's hard enough being a stranger in a strange land even when you have a college degree and work experience.

Logline had good advice for you: develop marketable skills before you set out to establish a new home. Otherwise, you will be a paycheck-to-paycheck drone the rest of your life. Las Vegas is not paradise unless you are already in the money. Desire and hustle used to be worth a great deal, but not in legitimate businesses in today's economy. Sorry to give you bad news, but better you should learn this now than when you are really in a hole.

Also, you should seek legal advice on what you can do about that DUI on your record. A minimum wage job, even if you have roommates, will hardly provide you enough money to live on. How would you be able to afford car insurance? Even without a DUI, Las Vegas has among the most expensive insurance rates in the country.

Please make a sensible decision. I know it sounds trite, but today IS the first day of the rest of your life. Get some credentials and do some serious preparation before starting out on a big adventure.

[PopsNegro]

Nah, just come to Vegas, baby!