What is the first/worst job you ever had?
My first ‘real-world’ job was also my worst job. π€£
Growing up, my parents and I always had an agreement that I did not need an outside job as long as I kept up my grades and worked on the family blueberry farm during the summers. I got an allowance and the arrangement suited us all. π€
However, the summer before I headed off to university, for some reason I decided to try something different. π€·π½ββοΈ
Since ‘N’ was my favorite place to shop, I thought it might be fun to work there as well. So, I applied for a position knowing that they often needed extra help during the anniversary sales.
After successfully gaining employment and undergoing high-quality training as they liked to remind us regularly throughout, πͺπ½ I was placed in one of the two coveted departments – lingerie – as a sales associate.
This department along with shoes were supposed to be the best to work in since commission was always high for any sales made due to the product prices. However, what training did not cover was how to deal with the cutthroat nature of the senior sales associates.
Additionally, no amount of training can change the spots of an introverted leopard.
Therefore, I lasted less than two months, π π½ββοΈ claiming I needed to prepare for going to university. I didn’t make it to the anniversary sales period and it never occurred to me to transfer to another department or to continue at another branch closer to my university once I moved.
Instead, I wisely deemed it my first, last and only sales position to ever enter my work history and have continued to be thankful that my career took me down a different path.
I am in awe of people who can do that kind of work regularly and enjoy it. It’s just another example of how we all have our different strengths and weaknesses. We just need to learn how to harness what we are best at and go forward in that direction. ππ₯°
~T π
