even if you assume ‘american’, labor law isn’t the same in every state- every state has their own set of regulations. Hell, I manage employees across a dozen cities, and they each have their own regulations about things like time off and vacation pay.
OP really needs to speak to a lawyer that’s local to him rather than the internet. Even if it’s good advice where the advisor is… it may not be true where the advisee is.
define “work well”.
I work in contract security, and I’ve spent the better part of a decade doing armed shit for that. Plenty of high pressure incidents. Nobody died, which was praised. But somehow I get the feeling the interviewer wouldn’t like that kind of “work”. (Like stuffing my hand up an entry wound when a construction contractor through-and-through’d his thigh with an air nailer. 9 penny nail hit his femoral artery. "hey buddy this is gonna hurt’ when the dude is bleeding out was, maybe stating the obvious. Yes. he lived. most awkward ambulance ride ever.)(in a fit of irony, their boss made him the safety guy. which he takes seriously now.)