Honestly a lot of people will shit on it but through high school and early 20s i worked at maccas.

Sorry if anyone does that, anyone who decides to shit on anyone for earning an honest living and working hard to gain new skills and indepdenece shouldn't be listened to. My relative is a senior at one of the Big4 banks and told me that his time as crew trainer at McDonalds taught him so many valuable skills that got him to were he was. He has an alcohol addiction and a failing marriage but that's another story, lol.

OP your most marketable asset right now is going to be 1) your availabilities, 2) your enthusiasm. My first job out of highschool was cash-in-hand 12hour carpentry days for $10/hour that took a damn toll on my body (I'm 5"11.5 and used to help run a farm). I couldn't drive so I'd be picked up by this random mexican (who was the kindest fucking person I've met, I love mexicans) and go to some suburbs far away. In my new job, which is abit better but still shitty and entry-level, we get 100s of resumes for uni kids and most of them have their resume trashed out because their availabilities aren't good and / or they cant talk properly in interviews or we just don't need them.

Walk in the store well-dressed, ask to speak to the manager, hand your resume, shake hand, maintain eye contact, list your availabilities and follow up on the application. Most jobs aren't advertised. I printed my resume and walked many stores just handing them out to random stores and places. Took a few weeks but it's there.

This is where you'd potentially be able to work

• Bartending, but requires an RSA which can now be obtained online IIRC for around $50. Work can be variable.

• Retail, which is probably the most common and ideal, and are very accommodating with your uni schedule, but may be hard to break into

• Admin jobs, which are boring as all hell, and hard to get, as they are usually posted online and many people apply there. Will usually be contracted, most people don't work here more than a few months

• Labour hire companies, get a white card and this is probably the best $$

• Convenience stores, a lot of friends work here, you'll 95% be paid cash-in-hand. If you are white don't bother going here as they only hire foreigners who are easy to exploit (source: experience of me and my friends) unless you are in some rich suburb but even then, meh

• Entry level call centres - if you're good with people, conversing, are competitive,, you can make some good $$ here as they pay around $22ish an hour and sometimes comission. If you want to get into more advanced sales later, this is great

All in all, if you're looking for the best and most sociable job at your age, so is everyone else, and most peolpe who get these kind of jobs tend to have connections. Sucks, but that's life.