I am going to be a doctor. There are no ifs ands or buts about it. It may take me awhile to get in, but I will be a doctor. I see so many people around me doing jobs that they hate just to get by. It’s sad. I was one of those people, but no more. I have my EMT-B license now and will no longer do anything just to get by. Famous Footwear, How sad that I wasted five years of my life doing that garbage. I nearly reached my sixth year. What have I gotten out of that time? Absolutely nothing. I have a little entry on my resume that says that I can be a manager, that I can sell shit, shit that I never wanted to sell in the first place. If I was not so dumb, I would have researched my options in the beginning. I would be a Paramedic by now. Maybe I would have done better on the MCAT if I had been working in the medical field all of this time? That is what I should have done.

There is another assistant at my old store, actually she is an associate manager but that is neither here nor there. I think she is as disappointed with the job as I have become. I discussed with her what she really wants to do with her life. She claims to want to be a nurse, but saw that as an impossible profession for herself. I questioned as to why that was and she described the ungodly time that some customer had taken at community college wasting her time trying to become a two year nurse. Apparantly, the particular customer had taken well over three times what it should have taken her to become this level of nurse and she discouraged my employee from pursuing nursing. I was intent on changing that. I showed her the minimal requirements at her local community college and she seemed encouraged about the situation. Will she actually pursue it? Who knows. Probably not. I have seen the retail monster take the lives of too many people. Retail is not a real job, its a temporary position until you find a real job. Maybe if you make more than $50,000 per year, you have room for argument, but if you do not, retail is not a real job.

What is most sad about the situation is that the unhappiness with the company is not necessarily due to the company. It is the management. Big Loser is the worst store manager I have ever worked for. Actually, I think that he is the only store manager that I have worked for. Most store managers knew enough that I worked with them. They realized that I had capabilities beyond the dregs of the retail world, and they of course did not, hence their own demise in these the worst of all stores.

I am finally out of retail and I do not think I have been as happy to do anything in my life.