chosen2k wrote. However you need to be vigilant not to get sucked in the night life/ ditching uni for the money as it happened to others. Good luck bruh
That's definitely a risk, but in most bar, when there's not a lot of people (before 8:30 mostly), i used to just pop up my laptop and start working on my studies, a bit like all these Starbucks goers.
i'll be a bit bland and go against what most people are saying here, but out of experience in real life, my CV only got me through the door of interviews, however this is my social skills, specifically my character and ability to understand / manipulate the interviewer that landed me the jobs.
so even though it's not prestigious, your social skills is as important (if not more) than your technical skills. All in all you need both to move up the food chain.
you previously mentioned that recruiters always mentioned that you needed experience, but maybe you failed to convince them that you were the person for the job and that you were enthusiast to get the position, in which case they told you that your lack of experience is the deciding factor to smooth the answer, while it really was that you did not convince them.
i'm not saying that this is what happened specifically with you, but this happens a lot.
also, and this is a polemic topic, don't hesitate to bend a bit your CV : you did 3 days cleaning up a beach front with an NGO ? turn it into "volunteer coordinator with NGO on the project X".
again all i'm saying is that your CV gets you through the door, but only yourself can get you the job. if you think that you're the right person for a position, do everything you can to have the opportunity to show it to the recruiter.