I don't know anything on the home-based business front. I would echo the obvious advice -- retail job. It sounds like she has 'tried' that and come up empty so far. But, they really are not that hard to get. She may need a greater sense of urgency. Is she graduating this year? Will she be headed to college?
Is culinary school something you think she'd take serious? I get where your coming from, you want her to start acting like an adult, he'll I was working when I was 15 or 16 so it's mind boggling that she can't find something at 19.
Seriously, high school wasn't that hard. I went to one of the better ones back in the day...and I was always up to no good. Yet, I still made good enough grades. I'm left wondering if you'll didn't push her hard enough in high school. Pretty much all that is expected of kids growing up is to go to school and make the grades. Did you'll fail a bit on the parenting front? Lack of desire is a piss poor excuse.
Maybe she "can't" get a job because her resume is horrible and her interviewing skills are terrible. Or perhaps she doesn't spend a quality amount of time on the job application. Maybe some coaching in how to find a job is in order.
That is not an easy field. She doesn't need to go to culinary school to do this. You either have the talent or you don't. If she really wants to pursue this, she can easily get a job at a grocery chain as a pastry/cake decorator. If she has a good attitude and talent, then one of the chains vendors will eventually pick her up.
Take her cell phone texting privileges away and tell her she'll get it back when she finds a job. She'll be working by the weekend.
You can refer her to my wife -- she went to culinary school (after college) and ran her own business doing wedding cakes for awhile. But, she doesn't need a degree to work a job like that. Send her to the bakeshops and especially hotels in town to apply for a cook position. Being able to speak Spanish will be useful if she gets a job. She can indulge her dream now, learn what it means to really bust your ass, and be paid poverty line wages. And, hopefully, she'll also learn it's not as great as she'd think and she'll decide to get some training to get a different job with worthwhile compensation. Alternatively (and more home-based), she can start a website to advertise herself as a wedding cake designer, visit the wedding expos, and see if she can get any takers. Business for her will probably be occasional at best, but the cost of entry is very, very low.
Temp work, retail or restaurant. Good 'filler' jobs. Or even volunteer work somewhere. She needs to get out of the house. Who's paying her way now? Good advice on the resume. Have someone help her with that.
If the reason you haven't kicked her out already is because you want her to land on her feet, then I'd look really hard at the Juco idea. Retail and fast food isn't exactly a highway to Beverly Hills and you can get trapped working 50+ hours just to make it. Actually, a half course load and a crap fast food job might bring home what bad life decisions can lead to. Does wearing a paper hat and taking s#$t from the general public make dry history lessons a tad more interesting? I think it might.
Ill sell you a package for a home business. It includes tutorials, support, dvds, your own website, etc... it'll set you back a couple of thousand though. And most people lose their investment. But hey...
My brother was kind of the same type. It took him a few years after hgh school to pull himself together and realize he wanted more in life than to wait tables. He had crummy grades and struggled with his first year of junior college. But now he's concentrating. He's pre-med and doing really well. I guess my point is not to give up yet, Nero. I would recommend she get a job and start to experience "real" life to a certain extent. Sometimes that's all it takes to motivate. That and time.
So wait, your daughter is 19 and still in highschool? .....................................................I hope I read that wrong, if not then I am sorry sir.
Consider that she might be clinically depressed. You had her, you raised her, you are responsible for her, so you need to have patience. It's a scary ass world out there. If you kick her out, you might find her working down on Telephone Road because there is no pain that can't be dulled by crack.
What incentive does she have to find a job? You can be a good parent by giving her food and shelter and still make her life very hell unless she does what she needs to do to succeed in life. Make her "work" at home. Make her do everything, all the housekeeping, all the cooking take away privileges and she'll find a job quickly. Like rhadamanthus, I have a brother who was in a similar situation. My parents made it very tough on him. He didn't go to college but he ended up getting a decent job and moving out of my parents' house before he was 21. Job/Military/College, there are only 3 options after high school and it shouldn't take forever to make a decision.
I thought it was a good point to make. This problem may be a symptom of a larger problem. And, if you put her in a sink-or-swim dilemma, she might sink. I have a brother-in-law who had a similar problem years ago. He wanted to work and support himself, but he dropped out of school and couldn't manage to hold jobs for very long (he blames ADD and might be right). I recommended he join the Navy, thinking it was an organization that could give him employment, skills, structure, and teach him something about working. Essentially, I convinced him to put himself in a sink or swim situation -- and he sank. He completely melted down in boot camp and went AWOL for a little while. Eventually, he got a medical discharge for depression. Sometimes, the tough love doesn't really work out the way you want.
I think its 2 years, and it is not easy to get into. Perhaps you are thinking of Dental Assisting. You can do that in ~6 months at most CC and it pays decent I guess; $10-12/hr. Both Hygienist's and Assistants are in demand.
