People love to look down on retail, hospitality or fast food work, like it’s something you “grow out of” or leave behind once you get a “real job.” But honestly I think those jobs teach you resilience.
You learn how to stay calm under pressure, how to handle difficult people, how to read the room, how to speak clearly and how to meet people’s needs, fast. You don’t get that from sitting in a classroom or even from some fancy office job where you don’t deal with the public.
If you’ve done any customer-facing job, you know. There’s a toughness, a people-sense and a work ethic that gets built in, and it stays with you.
AIBU to think we don’t give enough credit to how much you grow in those kinds of jobs?