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Originally Posted by cogladaid
It’s good to pad your resume a bit. But if you find you can’t do it, there’s no shame.
The only thing I could suggest is to brush up on some computer skills and then apply for some office positions though a temp agency.
I was stuck with retail for six years for my first job. I moved to the city and had trouble finding anything until I was contacted by a temp agency and that got me to an office job. Hired full time, then let go (dissolved our department), and that helped me get my current job at a Canada wide insurance company (I got promoted twice in six years).
Just an idea if you want to try to get out of retail. Definitively brush up on computer skills, pad your resume with skills and be sure to include even ongoing schooling (even if you haven’t graduated yet). It’ll help you get past some automatic screening.
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Yeah I’m probably gonna stick it out through the holidays, it’s only a temp position so if they don’t want to keep me after that I’ll be fine with that but if they do I will try to stay for a year and then put in my two week notice and leave before next years holidays so I don’t have to deal with another retail holiday season. Either way is fine with me. If they don’t keep me it’s no big deal because it was a temp position anyway so it’s not like being fired, I can still add it to my resume as a successful temporary seasonal job. but if they do keep me I’m fine with that too. I have to be nice to myself because I’ve only been in retail for a little over 3 months now. I’m still learning. It’s definitely not something I’m gonna stay with forever though. I will try to learn more computer skills so I can get some kind of office job eventually though.
It’s kind of crazy though learning a new register system in the midst of the week before Christmas. Like what a bad time to switch jobs. Cause even though they’re the same in a lot of ways the systems and procedures and stuff are still different if that makes sense.
Regardless if I stay here a year or just seasonal it’s a few extra big paychecks at the very least. I’m not thrilled about working 29 hours this week and on Christmas Eve and back to back shifts on no sleep but if I can make it through the next two weeks without walking out it will be fine. I just need to not act on my impulse of quitting lol just gotta get through the next two weeks.