My Job

My job is interesting.  It's part time salesman, part time tech support and 100% minimum wage employment.  I get to enjoy the benefits of a lot of jobs all at once.

Job 1 - Salesman.
For this part of my job I do a lot that is generally against my nature ie, trying to convince people that there is some benefit to buying something in store versus online. ((I wrote about that before! Against Internet Shopping)) The most notable benefit is that they get to talk to me.  If they're lucky maybe they'll buy me some coffee, or expensive jewelry, or they can also sacrifice virgins to try and gain my favor.  Don't worry, those are just some of the more tame offers I've accepted.  This part of my job also sees me doing ANYTHING to get customers out the door with my store's product.  That anything is usually reminding them they always have free in store support for what they buy from us.  I think it's because I was dropped on my head as a child I remind them of that, because otherwise I would remember that I am that tech support.

Job 2 - Tech support.
This part of my job is like what happens when I'm "a fool and forget to wrap my tool."  I catch myself saying things like, "No, of course we'll be able to explain how to use this device, no problem!" to a person who has just said they'll be getting it for their technologically impaired temperamental 80 year old golden retriever.  Don't get confused though, this isn't a real tech support job, where I can help customers with account issues or replace broken devices.  ((I have to call tech support for that.))  I just mostly reboot angry people's devices.  If you're a part of my generation you will absolutely not be impressed with how many people think their device is broken until I restart it.  I'd say probably at least two people a day.

Finally my job is in fact all minimum wage.  That means I get to work 30-40 hours a week, without ever actually getting to 40 hours on the dot, as that would mean I'd need benefits.  My 39.858823 hours a week gets me a meal 4/5 days of the week and the ability to stay at any number of local family member's houses.  It helps if they have a basement and don't really notice I'm there for 3-5 days at a go.  Less awkward that way. So quit complaining and loafing around, go out there and quit your minimum wage job today!