…you can clock out any time you like, but you can never leave.
Easier to get a job if you have a job. Probably should use the earnings to see a therapist to deal with the job application anxiety.
I find this meme very classist.
I worked for Walmart in the mid 2000s.
It’s not classist. That place is a hellhole. There’s a reason so many people who work there are on food stamps.
It’s classist to be mad at people who live in food deserts and can’t shop elsewhere. It’s classist to be fine with the system that puts people in jobs that don’t actually support them. It’s classist to look down on folks who get stuck in those jobs. It’s not classist for someone to be unhappy that they got stuck in such a job.
Fuck Walmart.
(I worked there and was a CSM before being able to move to a better job in 2010.)
I knew a woman who took a job in a porn shop while she worked on her book (a children’s book), and depression set in when she realized she hadn’t touched her manuscript in 2 years and her career was being a porn clerk.
She ended up becoming the manager of three stores.
Edit: This was back in the ‘90s, when people bought porn in stores.
I graduated in 2011 shortly after the shit hit the fan in '08. I remember moving back home and trying to get my shit together. My mom starts hounding me about needing to go back to work (I had worked as a cashier at a grocery store seasonally while getting my degree) I told her I wasn’t going back to that job n wanted to get a career job. After a month of not getting said career job in the worst economy since the depression she threatened to kick me out if I wasn’t working in the next 2 weeks. So I went back to that shit ass retail job… For 4 fucking years.
I worked at the grocery store, got a promotion and still made next to nothing wage wise. After a couple of years it was a real hindrance in interviews. I would get questions like "you graduated 2 years ago, why are you still working at a grocery store? Eventually a friend got a job working in an office at a limo company. I was able to piggy back off him to get a job there. It was shady, and I had no healthcare, or benefits compared to my previous employer, but it was a desk job. I was only at the limo company a little more than a year before I managed to get a career job elsewhere and work my way up. I sincerely think that having that crappy retail job on my resume was holding me back.
It pisses me off that I wasted 4 years on a retail job when I absolutely could have/ would have/ should have been in a better job. I have told new grads multiple times not to fall into this trap. Don’t get a bridge job if you can avoid it. It’s going to suck up all your time, and having the work experience isn’t going to help your career. You’re better off just quitting and pursuing your career in any way you can. Unless you absolutely cannot make rent and will be homeless, fucking don’t do it. Also, now with driving Uber / door dash as an option, I’d recommend it before doing retail. You can actually network driving Uber and talking to folks.
