I am 14 years old and not in school. Can I go out to work?

If you are under 14 years old, you are a child laborer. If you are recruited, you will be recruiting illegally and the company will be punished.

I don’t know why you don’t study.

If you are doing it for family reasons, there is some financial support. If you don’t have enough, you can apply for help from the neighborhood committee or relevant departments. Or call the mayor’s hotline 12345 for help.

If you don’t read because you think reading is boring or very hard. You can try going to a relative or friend’s restaurant. Try a summer job or part-time job and you'll know. Working part-time may not be as easy as you think.

When I say it’s not easy, I don’t mean how difficult the work is. It's because when you choose a job, you do the same thing every day. If working this way is not your thing. Then it will be painful for you. You will gradually feel that life is hopeless. I can’t feel where my future is.

This is the scariest part of a bad job. For example, the salary of this job is very meager. The treatment is not good and the social status is not very high. If you repeat this kind of work step by step, you won't feel so good. It will also be very tiring physically.

Go study now. Not that. What you learn is useful. But it can give you more choices in the future. Have the choice to do jobs you don't like? Go and get those jobs you like if you can afford them. This is the meaning of your study now.

Because whenever you go for a job, there will be a threshold for that job. In many cases, academic qualifications are a very basic threshold.

If you have a future direction you want to pursue. You can try again. If not, I suggest you study first, then see what interests you, and then gradually develop in that direction.