What kind of jobs can a 17-year-old do?

You cannot go to work and sign a labor contract when you are 17 years old. Because the state stipulates that you must be over 18 years old to work, so most formal units cannot hire you.

What 17-year-olds should do is as follows:

1. Learn knowledge: learn a skill or specialty (become an apprentice or sign up for a class directly) as an investment in the future and improve professional skills and personal comprehensive qualities to prepare for future employment or life.

2. Accumulated experience: 17 years old is a relatively embarrassing age. He is a minor, has little work experience, and has relatively few suitable positions.

You can consider going into sales. Sales is a very training profession, and many companies do not have high requirements for experience and academic qualifications when recruiting sales staff. As long as you are interested in this aspect and are willing to work hard, it will be fine. There is a lot of room for sales development, and it can also help increase knowledge, exercise communication and collaboration skills, etc., so it is a good choice.

Extended information:

Article 58, paragraph 2, of the "Labor Law" stipulates that "underage workers refer to workers who are over 16 years old and under 18 years old." , Article 28 of the "Law on the Protection of Minors" stipulates that "no organization or individual may recruit minors under the age of 16."

From these legal provisions, we can know that the state stipulates that the age for citizens to participate in work is sixteen years old, and those who have reached the age of sixteen cannot participate in work as workers.

Reference materials: Baidu Encyclopedia - General Principles of Civil Law

Reference materials: Baidu Encyclopedia - Labor Law