Among other things. Since we last met, I had been working at said retail chain for 5 months. By September, I will have been working there for almost a year now. I'm now an electronics man, as working up front at the registers started to lose a bit of it's charm(or at least what little there was to begin with). While some would consider this gig to be most unglamous(a sentiment in which I share by the way), its still a paying job and I'm grateful for it. I was flat broke when I was hired, so I didn't really care at that point what I was hired as.

After about 7 months of consistant hard work trying to be a credit to the cashier workforce, I figured I had just enough breathing room to ask the electronics manager if they needed some new blood in the electronics department at all. Thankfully this was the case, and I've been back there as a sales associate for about 2 and a half months. It's great most of the time, but one has to realize that you are inherently trading in one kind of "hectic" for another kind.

Instead of standing still and ringing heavy groceries in a right to left motion while listening to difficult customers complain, I am now running around putting out stock and straightening up displays and whatnot while occasionally running into a customer who doesn't know what kind of computer/TV/audio-video cables to buy and who isn't technically savvy. Problem is, neither am I on certain areas. But thankfully that's why I wanted to work in electronics. It fascinates me, and I'm always trying to learn more each day. With each passing day, I'm slowly reaching the equivalent of my cashier days in terms of how well I conducted myself with the customers.

My mom and dad have raised me to take pride in doing a job well, because no matter what job it is or how unglamourous it may be in comparision to other occupations, it's still a privilege to have it. And no amount of money will ever top the feeling you get when a satisfied customer thanks you with a handshake.