Work Retail?
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- spot130
The problem with retail is...
1. The pay sucks (unless your a manager with incentives)
2. The hours suck and sometimes are lacking as most retail jobs are part time
3. People are dicks and they'll treat you like dirt cause your on the bottom of the stack
4. Working holidays sucks
5. Your coworkers will all bitch about working retail all day
6. You will listen to Christmas music every day from Nov. 1st until Jan. 15th- Spoken by someone who's truly been there... you nailed it!ghandolf
- the last part is painfully true in some cases...vaxorcist
- lol, I worked retail for 6 months in 1997 - that was enoughspot13
- Not as hard as fast food...most of the time.Jaline
- but, if you work in retail, nobody expects you to use the correct form of "you're"monospaced
- hy, thnks fr ctchng tht mnspcd, yr grmmr crtqs r lwys wlcm hrspot13
- zoozoo0
ive always wanted to work at a gamestop for some reason
- melq0
designquestions said, "I might have an opportunity to work at a shitty agency whose work doesn't inspire me."
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For their sake, I hope they don't make you an offer. I can't imagine they'd get any kind of return on their investment in you (money, time) if you have a shitty attitude like this.
- +1rson
- Well some agencies just don't good work or have interesting clients,randomname
- Frosty_spl0
I want to sell Lamborghinis.
- 20020
I think working at retail is a great idea.
You will get a different perspective about consumers and how you interact with them. Think of it as an observational research. Keep it in mind that you are there to learn not to earn.
Big retail companies like Louis Vuitton LVMH, L'Oreal, Estee Lauder etc with strong retail presence, make you work at retail at least 2 weeks a year. At LVMH, as part of the management training program, you spend half a year at various retails stores.
- dbloc0
you will make quite a bit less...retail is more of a high school job
- not a high school job, but yes your income will be much lower.ohhhhhsnap
- qoob0
Retail job at a cool store is actually not that easy to get. More likely you'll end up working at Kinkos.
- I know, but just hypothetical for now.designquestions
- I would take any other design job over Kinkos or something like that.designquestions
- qoob0
Why not freelance instead?
- discoduro0
Same thing happened to me a few years ago and I landed a job at comic shop. Shit pay but the best job I ever had, was there for 2 years. I kind of wish I never quit to go back to design. I actually got a chance to do some lettering through the job.
Just keep doing your own thing on the side and I say go for it if it's retail in something you really enjoy.
- flashbender0
Would you like fries with that?
- rson0
Depends on what kind of retail you are talking about. Working as a cashier seems like a huge step down but, if you get a sales rep postion you could make good money. I have a friend that is the sales rep for Emerica on the east coast. He makes good money and appears to just drive around to skate shops all week.
- designquestions0
qoob, I can always do side work. I don't want to be alone all day, and good freelance work is hard to get sometimes.
- vaxorcist0
I worked in photo labs and camera stores in the 90's... it was great fun, didn't make much $$, but sometimes the least paying gigs are the most fun.... the co-workers were cool, no office politics....
- ok_not_ok0
Work retail while looking for design work.
Anything to pay the rent meng!
- Do it man! Work at McDonald!qoob
- I do have money saved, but good advice.designquestions
- flip some burgers yo!pango
- teh0
I remember the rave days when retail was fun cause you could get free jncos and ufos.
retail isn't fun anymore.
- duckseason0
I used to work at Apple when I was putting myself through school, pays pretty good for a retail job and has decent perks/benefits - I think I was making around 17/hr working in the stockroom with no real responsibility.
- A lot of the employees are the diehard fanboys, so it could get annoying at times.duckseason
- meffid0
Retail can be fun.
- mekk0
if you have the retail-thing in your cv after losing your job your cv says:
"dear reader, i am not a whiny pussy and i am able to do other things for my money til i got the perfect job."so do it 'til you find the job you really want!
end of story.
- ohhhhhsnap0
stay away from Urban Outfitters.
Try an Apple store in your area. They hire pretty "ethically."