I just worked retail all day!

[XemaSab]

Do you think I can write a bestseller that I can sell to yuppies about how miserable the lives of the working class are? :shrug:

[tigereye]

1. I always assumed you were a biologist

from your knowledge of the avian world. :hi:


I think all yuppies should be forced to experience the lives of the working poor or the working class for one day.

The book "NIckeled and Dimed" gave a pretty depressing rendering of such things.


I've never done retail but I have had some challenging jobs, so I empathize.

[XemaSab]

2. I am a biologist "in real life"

I have a friend who owns a store and she needs a hand for the next couple weeks.

I am between biologist gigs, so I offered to lend a hand. :P

My feet hurt like a mofo, but not any worse than after walking transects all day, and the job was WAY more fun and interesting than walking across a boring field. Doesn't pay as well, but you can't have everything in life. :P

[mentalsolstice]

4. "Nickeled and Dimed" should be on every book club's list!

I have a law degree...yet my most valuable work experiences were working in a pizza parlor (bussing tables) and an adult daycare center (I has snuff juice spilled all over me). Neither of these jobs were "traumatic", but they prepared me for the trauma I was to experience, later, in my legal career, and now as a "retired person", volunteering for crisis situations.

[XemaSab]

3. Totally self-centered kick.

:P

[mentalsolstice]

5. K&R!

[Robeson]

6. No, spice it up. Make it sound like the best thing ever....

...I used to be a night auditor at a hotel. Hotel jobs are grunt work, and totally thankless....

Then, I watched an episode of Hotel Babylon, on the BBC, and didn't realize how glamorous hotel work was, and that hotel workers had sex and fun with exotic people everyday. Gee, where was I when all that was happening at the hotel I worked for?

Anyway, write a Jackie Collins style book on the glamor of retail, and you'll probably get a tv series out of it.

[XemaSab]

7. The beauty of the job:

There wasn't a single moment where I felt totally clueless and unqualified, even though it was my first day. :)

I am well on my way to a major lounge post about the job search. :P