Hard Time

Unlike many of you here, I am already 31 and oddly enough I was approved for DACA the day after I turned 31. Took them 5 months when my case was very clear.

I have applied at many and many places but no luck yet and feel so bum and depressed.
I can't put any work experience cause we were "not suppose to work" and feel soo angry being 31 and having to put no work experience. I sickens me that an employer could see my app and see my age and no work experience.
Being 31 and having no job no nothing. I wish DACA would have happened a decade earlier and the douches at USCIS take into consideration the people that were already 30; and what makes it worst is that I already have an application but I turned 21.
I feel that I will not get a job any time soon. I have applied at Walmart and have gone there to shop and some of the people there are soo old that they can barely carry themselves. I might be being rude but I am getting into such an absolute deep depression.

Is there any governmental agency that could help me out find a job.
Any one that is DACA approved that are over 31 now and got a job how did the employer
feel (if) you had to put no work experience.

I am just so bummed out at everything in life.

I certainly know what it's like to lack work experience, but my advice is to keep applying my friend. My only work experience was volunteer work and a few gigs that I had done after finishing college. I have been mostly helped and supported by my family.

After I got approved for DACA, I tried working with Temp Agencies and Recruiters in different fields, although it has worked for others, it just didn't work out for me. My advice would be to check out websites like the "Jobs" section of Craigslist.org, register and set up alerts on websites like Simplyhired.com and Indeed.com, also search the websites of independent businesses as well. I also sent a lot of resumes through Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com.

I sent out hundreds of resumes over the internet (at least 500 resumes) between December last year and May this year. I went to 6 interviews at different companies and was finally hired on my 7th interview.

Keep pushing, don't give up, someone WILL give you a chance, stay positive and keep searching. All the best!

I'm 28 and job searching - sent out ~80 resumes, two interviews, no job offer yet, so I do understand where you are coming from. If I had been able to get an internship while in graduate school, job search would be so much easier. There's no reason why you can't put jobs you had as experience pre-DACA. Employers aren't immigration, and they won't even know your immigration status until they hire you. The work is still experience.

I agree with Dream becomes Reality, keep applying and don't lose hope.

I'll trade ya!

I recommend you put your resume on monster.com and make a full profile. add a picture, information about yourself it helps you out. Unfortunately I have become part of the unemployed(again) and I am job searching again.

Contemplate these words of wisdom, then apply it. I wish you the best of luck, keep in mind you create your own luck.

These 3 Laws are apart of the 105 UNIVERSAL LAWS

The only thing I can tell you is to stay strong. I'm 23 now and I can say I relate and it's not even as bad as your situation, but I've had very low points in my life.

When I look at threads like this I think about how terrible my situation is but I always have to think as well that in some ways I have it better than many going through hardships.

I for example don't have an approval timeline like many here. It's not because I didn't qualify for DACA, but because I got approved for permanent residency. I still haven't felt the chains that tied me as being a second class slave as having been completely removed. I think that's in part because of the mark they left after applying tremendous pressure for many long years. I'm 23 and I feel socially retarded. I still need to get my driver's license, get a half decent job, and find a way to finish paying for my uni. When I'm around others who grew up in privileged suburbs and without the problem of being undocumented I really see how behind I am. It's like being undocumented after being 16 yrs old makes you retarded. Now I have to find a way to catch up due to basically being denied to live those years. Being undocumented is psychologically toxic. It was a real pain to me and I'm sure anyone who knows only the USA as their home can relate to that sentiment. I tried not working illegally and going to a university but I found it to be very socially depressing and struggled because of that so I understand when you say you're frustrated by your lack of notable experience you can put down in your job hunt. Emotionally, it was very hard for me to go to school and it seemed impossible to get a job without explaining to people you were undocumented. Right now I'm trying to fix those grades that might have been Cs or even an F because I just couldn't motivate myself to attend classes regularly or build friendships due to how hard it was to maintain them being undocumented.

Stay strong and do your best and hopefully something will come up. It's the only way to think if you don't want to become depressed and suicidal. I've struggled with depression for years and at points it rendered me unable to leave my bed even at 145lbs. You would think a man at 145 isn't very heavy to not be able to get out of bed, but when the mental anguish is heavy, it feels like you weigh tons. Not being able to go to school because you're depressed and feel inadequate, emasculated, and god knows what else you feel is a real terrible feeling. I was depressed for many reasons, and the road got even heavier when I found out someone very important in my life had cancer, but when you're at the bottom, the light shines and you find a way to move forward. STAY STRONG. I posted in another topic how I am going to visit Mexico for my first time(well, since I was born) to at least know where my roots come from, but the reality is I'm using it as a way to acquire motivation and to cherish those opportunities that present themselves to me. I really should be doing summer class and trying to graduate faster, but after the emotional shit I have been through in the past years I feel that there is nothing better than seeing others in a worse situation than you to make you realize that you don't have it as badly as you really believe.

Sometimes the only way to improve or overcome a hardship is to find fuel to help you break that wall and keep moving forward and I hope this trip does that. I don't know what drives your motivation, but for me a reality check and a realization that I can't go back in time really helps. Sometimes I get fixated on the mistakes I make in the past, but I have to realize at some point that I don't have a time machine to go fix them, so I should do my best with what I have at the moment. I guess what I'm trying to convey with this is that you can't stand around feeling depressed with what is the past. Look towards the future and see what you can make happen instead of dwelling on what you didn't make happen. I'm the most pessimistic and realistic guy a lot of people know, and the reason I can overcome the pessimistic side of me is that the realistic side is always there to remind me that no matter how hard I dwell on mistakes, I can't go back in time and fix them.

Good luck and put your best foot forward.

I don't understand why people say not to put your work experience on your résumé? It's a serious question lol. Might as well be honest to whoever might hire you.

A lot of the time many employers who might haven given you the job will look at it negatively and deny you the job.


There are a few topics on here of people who got their offer rescinded when the employer found out about their previous status or jobs illegally. It's really saddening, but the world is cruel. If everyone valued the truth highly, then telling the truth would always be the best course of action, but that isn't reality.

I agree I applied for a job at Mcdonalds they looked at me previous job as farm maintinence and thought I wasn't ""qualified" Even when id held that job for three years was used to hard labor and they had a employee walk out on them every other day.