I'm sick of working retail.

[CrispyQ]

39. Service industry jobs suck.

Management abuses you. Customers abuse you. It's some of the most thankless work out there, not to mention they are low paying jobs, now.

When I worked retail, I was in the union & we had good pay & terrific benefits. Because of union rules, management couldn't "abuse" us. If you got scheduled to work until midnight one day & had to come in at 6 AM the next day, the first two hours of your morning shift were paid at overtime, until you reached the 8 hour mark since your prior shift. Any time you worked over an 8 hour day was paid at overtime, even if you only worked 24 hours for the entire week. And because the company didn't want to pay overtime, they were usually more cognizant of scheduling, unlike today, where workers are often times expected to be "on call" for a shitty fucking job with shitty fucking pay.

Choose wisely! Don't forget the future impact of automation & AI. I read an article yesterday that stated a lot of medical & law jobs are at risk due to computers now doing the first level of diagnosing/evaluating a patient/client's situation. Jobs that traditionally could not be outsourced, may be automated instead.

Good luck!


First they came for the autoworkers jobs, but I didn't care because I wasn't an autoworker...