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DS9VOY

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Over the past few days for some reason I have been seriously looking at my life. I am not happy with where I am in life.

I am 27 years old and what am I doing with my life? Selling video games at Target. I've been doing this since I was 20. I graduated high school, spent two years doing nothing, and went to Target. That's what I've got to show for my life. I can't even live on my own because I am making $8.50/hour and am lucky to get 20 hours a week.

My younger brother is 24 years old. He has an associates degree and almost is done with his bachelors degree. He has been a technician at AT&T and now he works for the government. His life is great compared to mine.

Looking back on it now I shouldn't have listened to the idiots I work with. There is ALWAYS some kind of drama or tragedy going on in their life. Every single day all they do is complain about how horrible our lives are and how we make nothing for a living. Everyone I work with says we can't do anything outside of retail because "we don't have a degree". Well I can't accept that anymore. There has to be SOMETHING else we can do out there that doesn't require a degree. Something has to be better than retail.

One person I work with is ALWAYS complaining about not having enough hours, but when she gets scheduled more hours she always calls in and doesn't come to work. Then is back to complaining about not having hours. I used to play little mind games like that too. Well no more.

Well I don't want to be like this anymore. I am not going to make excuses. I want to get going in life, but I just don't know how hard it is going to be now? How bad is it going to look if I go for job interviews and they see all I've done is Target?

There are people I work with at my store who are 50 years old and have worked retail jobs and food service their whole life. They have nothing in their life, are one paycheck from the street, have a bad attitude, and are only making it because they are on government assistance. Honestly it scares the hell out of me. I'm 27 and I feel like I've already wasted several years that have just flown by. I don't want to look back 15 years from now and find my self still at Target going nowhere in life.
 
eldorado99

eldorado99

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Sounds like you need to do some soul searching and find out what you are interested in and then make a career out of it somehow (find some sort of training whether it be school or an apprenticeship or military).
 
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HappyPuppy

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Get Target to put you on full time. You know, like 40 hours a week and then you don't have to worry about anything.

There is nothing wrong with a career in retail and I only see you whining about what you already have. Buck up, you can do it!
 
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DS9VOY

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HappyPuppy said:
Get Target to put you on full time. You know, like 40 hours a week and then you don't have to worry about anything.

There is nothing wrong with a career in retail and I only see you whining about what you already have. Buck up, you can do it!
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Dude there is NO full time at Target unless you are in management. Everyone else is part time.

It's not like you can just walk in one day and say "Ok I want 40 hours now" It's retail. You have to fight for hours every week and are lucky to get 20.
 
guyver01

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DS9VOY said:
Everyone I work with says we can't do anything outside of retail because "we don't have a degree". Well I can't accept that anymore. There has to be SOMETHING else we can do out there that doesn't require a degree. Something has to be better than retail.
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Without knowing where you live... since your brother works for AT&T .. i'm gonna assume you live "near" an AT&T facility.

You could be a help desk monkey or a customer service jockey..... that doesn't require any degree... just the ability to read a script... and with 7 years retail customer service... its a plus on a resume.
 
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HappyPuppy

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DS9VOY said:
Dude there is NO full time at Target unless you are in management. Everyone else is part time.

It's not like you can just walk in one day and say "Ok I want 40 hours now" It's retail. You have to fight for hours every week and are lucky to get 20.
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You come off as a whiny little bitch. I'll bet you're the same way at work, with your family and your friends.

You need to change your mental attitude before anything good is going to happen.

Good luck.
 
dawp

dawp

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go the route of your brother? start at a community college since it cheap and you can go while still working at target. it never too late (unless you're dead) to go back to school.
 
brainhulk

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If it makes you feel any better I had a doctorate degree and was making 160k @ 26.
Of my 3 roomates, 2 were MDs and one had his MBA by 26 also.
 
guyver01

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DS9VOY said:
How bad is it going to look if I go for job interviews and they see all I've done is Target?
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:hmm:

not sure if this is a serious question...

noone fucking cares that you worked for target... all they care is that you were an employee for 7 years... that shows you're a STABLE employee...
 
Malak

Malak

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guyver01 said:
i'm gonna assume you live "near" an AT&T facility.
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So like... the entire eastern side of the US? AT&T has a facility in every city they have service in, which is everything from the middle east on over. And California.
 
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tatteredpotato

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Listen, this may be hard to hear, but it's the truth.

Life is what you make of it. If you have a dream in life you need to set yourself up to try to achieve it. Successful people don't have anyone telling them what to do... they just do what they have a passion for.

Personally I know what I love to do, and I've taken the steps to have the job I dream of. If I don't get there, that's alright... I know I've done as much as I can to get there, and in the end that's all you can do.

I advise you to look at your life objectively and tell us what you really what to achieve. What do you what your purpose to be?
 
dawp

dawp

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guyver01 said:
:hmm:

not sure if this is a serious question...

noone fucking cares that you worked for target... all they care is that you were an employee for 7 years... that shows you're a STABLE employee...
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It's better to have 1 employer for those 7 years than 7+ in that same period. Employers don't like job hoppers no matter the reason. And like guyver said, it doesn't matter who it was as long as it was stable.
 
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Sureshot324

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Are there any tech support call centers in your area? You should be able to make close to double your current salary and get 40 hours a week and it's usually not hard to get those jobs.
 
Whoozyerdaddy

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DS9VOY said:
Target requires a degree for management.
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