>I have never been good at making shit up or inflating the truth.
Well, don't outright lie then, because if you're a bad liar people will notice. What's the problem with saying you were studying full time, anyway?

I'm not good with lies either, but you could say you were self-employed selling electronics (or Star Wars figurines or whatever) on eBay but stopped because the profit margins were getting too thin.

>>1146

Fair enough, thanks for the input.

find a recently closed restaurant or other place in the area, use a phone number of the friend and say the friend was a manager there or whatever. Have him say you're a good employee.