Comments on: 2110: Stacking https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2015/10/30/2110-stacking/ Memoirs of a nobody Mon, 07 Apr 2025 08:35:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: RedSwirl https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2015/10/30/2110-stacking/#comment-82 Sun, 01 Nov 2015 01:57:37 +0000 https://angryjedi.wordpress.com/?p=8101#comment-82 You sound like a typical European when it comes to work/career prospects, or at least what I understand Europeans to be like in this regard. I think someone made the distinction by saying "Europeans work to live, Americans live to work." Now there's a whole other discussion of differences in work culture, worker rights, and economic policy to be had there, so I'll just stop with that comparison.

I myself recently managed to land a medical scribe work that doesn't pay a whole lot but I'm at least not totally broke. I'd still like to make a living doing something I actually like doing and live more comfortably than I am now.

]]> By: Chris Caskie https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net/2015/10/30/2110-stacking/#comment-81 Sat, 31 Oct 2015 12:00:46 +0000 https://angryjedi.wordpress.com/?p=8101#comment-81 I know where you're coming from on this one. I stock a grocery store freezer on Saturdays and Sundays for afew hours, and I find the work tiring, but incredibly satisfying. I've often said that if I could get the same pay & benefits at the grocery store that I do from my office job, I'd work there full time in a heartbeat. I feel that way about retail to a certain degree as well. Although I don't miss my time in games retail (I hated dealing with trade-ins), I thoroughly enjoyed the few years I spent selling toys. I like fun to be a component of my career – and hooking kids up with the toy that they were after certainly fulfilled that need.

I often complain about the soulless grind of retail work – but it's never the nature of the work that I'm actually bitching about, but more the amount of work that is expected of you for the meager pay. Retail workers work HARD, make no mistake, and they should be compensated in such a way as to make a career out of their efforts. Then they'll perform at a level that reflects that. It's just good sense.

]]>