Mine is retail work. Yeah I get it. You hate it. There isn’t anything that I hadn’t heard before about it by now that hasn’t already been said. Yup, people suck.

But on the same token, I don’t really appreciate the level people go to, to dissuade people from getting into retail work. Job is a job and income is income. You’ll need both of these things. I’ve learned that a lot of the time, people just happen to be employed by shitty stores that are managed by power-tripping people or maybe the team they work with are annoyingly incompetent.

Yet if you manage to find a store that’s worth working in, it’s worth it for however long you want to be there for. I chose to work for retail. I don’t mind the labor. I don’t want a sit-down desk job.

And yeah I work for a big company that has questionable values and has destroyed communities. But that’s really out of my control and because that I work for said company, does not necessarily mean that I agree with it or side with the corporate standards. If I wanted to, I’d go back to school and find something else to do.

And that’s what I advise people to do if they’re so tired of their retail job. Go back to school, it’s really all you can do other than go to trade school to get skills and branch into different careers. Just removed about it all day is not going to do a thing. I used to be like that but all it does was just make me hate everything and there were a couple points where I could’ve gotten fired over it. It’s not worth getting fired over something you don’t really have an investment in.

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    I oppose violence. There are some people who cause so much harm that I wish they’d die. I don’t wish for violence to occur, but I wouldn’t be sad if it happened and I had nothing to do with it.

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      “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”

      • Clarence Darrow

      (I thought it was Mark Twain before I looked it up for the wording)

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        Clarence Darrow

        Had to look him up to see why I recognized the name. Ah’m offended that you thank Ah’m a monkey! Ah’m takin’ you ta court! Legend.

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      The systems allow people to do harm, we need to violently oppose them.

      Jeff Bezo may suck as a person, but capitalism is designed to make people like him as the ruling class. If you don’t like it, fight it.