work experience (thing)

What you need in order to get a job. If you've already had a job, it's easy to fulfill this requirement and get a job. Otherwise, you'll need to get some work experience first.

Evidently this vicious cycle can be broken, since people (among them myself) do work. How this happens is unknown, even to the workers. But you can trust me: as someone who once had no work experience and now has a job, I can tell you that it is possible.

But I still don't know how, exactly.