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> Retail jobs are some of the worst ones to have too True, but they are also some of the only jobs nowadays that are available to people without college degrees
by duderific 9y ago
> Retail jobs are some of the worst ones to have too
True, but they are also some of the only jobs nowadays that are available to people without college degrees, or people who have effectively aged out of the white collar or blue collar workforce, but still need to generate some sort of income. Notice how many retail clerks nowadays are in the 55+ set.
- headcanon 9y agoI know, thats why I qualified it with "so as long as the gross job counts are replaced" Being a millenial, most people I've met in my age group are working in either retail or food service. Many of them also have 4-year degrees, just not in a business or technical field. One could say they should have made better educational decisions, but I would rather live in a world where we can celebrate the variety of human interests and endeavors, and not subject people to a lifetime of economic purgatory just because they didn't learn programming or whatever in school. I'm lucky because I happened to be legitimately interested in something that is very profitable in today's economy. Others are not so much, and I really feel for them. But the solution does not lie in dead-end jobs that give no kind of gainful employment.