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Wow, way to go with the pretentious comment!
I'm sure there are plenty of people who frequent these forums that do work in retail and who you've insulted with your remark. Maybe they'll be able to tell us whether it's purely a career for window-lickers. Perhaps Spie can confirm that, as he works in retail, he must have a low IQ.
Please do tell me what career you're pursuing, so I can compare whether it's as mentally challenging as mine.
Well you definitely took offence to a comment made in jest.
Regardless, I still do not find retail mentally stimulating work; I myself am pursuing a career in medicine to become a doctor.
Retail for the unskilled worker is mind numbing repetition; filling shelves, serving customers. For the semi-skilled middle management it's handling staff, rotas, sick days, staff problems etc. With the skilled senior/store management, it's ensuring the store makes money, and ensuring new sale strategies evince a bigger profit. While the latter does interest me, it also invariably requires a degree, which could be put to better use in another career, like medicine.
Besides; trying to attract more magpies to my shop with bright labels and flashy images and £££ signs being cut in half with scissors just doesn't look like it would provide me with job satisfaction; even if I did attract the most magpies out of all the brightly coloured jazzy shopfronts on the high street.
