Well when it comes to having income I guess I'm screwed.

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I don't think the public cares as much about a shining car as is generally thought to be. The rain and gas station squeegees are good enough for my vehicle and many others from my experience.

The rain doesn't clean your car, although it is a good idea to clean your car in the rain as the rain water will rinse the car helping prevent water marks without drying it - but people will look at you like you're stupid and make comments. Even cleaning your car in itself does not remove contaminants bonded to your paintwork, which claying does. If anyone's OCD you'll find lots to keep you occupied here http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/ lol.

You're definitely right though, people see cars as an A to B tool and don't give two hoots so long as it isn't obviously caked in muck, and it will start and go where they want it to.

My NT sister works at McDonalds... she is the most tolerant, socially-able, friendly person, and even she finds all of the interactions with customers and as well as other staff, to be difficult. People complaining that their custom orders aren't ready within 32 seconds... personally I think I'd have a hard time resisting the urge to splat the burgers in the impatient people's faces. The managers at her branch are slave drivers and if you're not quick enough, they shout loud. I think it's because they have targets to meet in order to get a bonus on their wages.

I was being somewhat facetious. since I drive a beat up 12 year old Ranger, it's good enough most of the time (detailing a beater or hooptee is kind of dumb).

Or could it be maybe some of these people such as me that you accuse of 'refusing to work jobs beneath them' actually might feel they FAIL at jobs and that they are beneath even the low paying sh*t jobs? Your assumptions fail at accuracy.

Thanks for the positive encouragement.

So, you fail at one job... try another job. You won't know you *would* fail at any given job until you've tried it for a respectable amount of tiem. And, if you get fired at one job, learn from your mistakes and find a way to improve whatever behavior of yours that made you fail, then try another job. Or find another job that is more suited to you. Your fear of failure failed to try working or trying to work jobs long-term to begin with. And, I don't mean trying one job for a few weeks...

Yep.

You could drop out and never try to get and work any job... and be broke. Or, you could attend but fail school and/or try a job and get fired... and be broke.

You don't KNOW you would get fired at a dishwashing job since you've never tried a dishwashing job.

It's not like getting fired at one job means you can never work anywhere again. Get a job, work it. If you get fired, find another job. Repeat.

Or a library, or cleaning houses while people are away, or gardening/yard work, or house sitting, or.... <insert 1000s of job types here>

I already have said in other more recent threads I am trying to apply for jobs and find work and stuff. Talking down to me because I am afraid of failing and pretty freaked out about the fact that I'm 22 and I have no idea how the hell I am going to survive in this freaking world...isn't exactly something that helps me motivate myself to put myself out there and really try and work. I mean that just increases my fear that people are going to be intolerant jerks if I so much as make one wrong move. Not that I expect anyone to care and maybe lay off a little bit or anything.

You'll survive the world just fine. You just gotta be willing to work whatever job you can get, grin and bear it no matter how much you hate the job, not worry about getting fired from just one job, being persistent in trying job after job until you find a job you don't get fired at, and find a way to improve your life after that.

Not applying or trying jobs is what failure is. Trying and getting fired is nothing. Get fired from one job, there are other jobs out there. And, even if you get fired from some job, you'll get paid for the time you worked, and can learn from what you did wrong to try at another job. Jerks? So? You can get a job, do your job, get paid, and it won't matter if jerks exist on the world. Don't psych yourself up about how scary it is, when it's really not that scary to get a job and make it for yourself. Get fired, you try again. Fail school, you learn from it and try again. Your motivation is surviving with a roof over your head and food-- and jobs provide that. Thus, a job you get means you won't have to fear that. Trying once and failing isn't enough. It's continuously trying and fixing past mistake. And, it's taking responsibility for past poor choices you said you made about going to college instead of blaming society.

If your attitude has changed and you're willing to wash dishes or try whatever job you gotta do to survive and learn from jobs you get fired at and you're taking responsibility for your life and choices, great. Once you accept that your life is your responsibility, you'll find a way to make it on your own. Billions of people on the planet do, and you can as well.