To think those who take low paid job are looked down on _or thought to be thick !

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Said on another thread how I was thinking of taking a supermarket Job rather than use my qualification . Reason being stress and the supermarket job fits round my family .
Have taken the job .saw sister as Father's Day . She said she was shocked i was waisting my education and that I should want more status !
Surely finding something that fits well with our young children is reason enough ?! Since saying I'm taking a supermarket job people are presuming I'm stupid ! Is this just my family or have others in simular jobs had this - ?

Oh no, I can see how Pink's post may have been misread. Do come and tell us, Pink

I have a degree and I work part time in retail. When I go on maternity, I won't be going back to work because DP works irregular hours and we wouldn't be able to sort childcare. But with tax credits/child benefit we'll be better off than we are at the moment.

Together we bring home around 18k a year and we can survive on it happily. We pay rent and bills and tax and we can afford new things, meals out etc. My mental health is fragile and I would rather earn less and be happy than rich and an anxious wreck all the time.

People do look down on me but I enjoy my job and I like being able to come in from work and forgetting about it once I'm home.

I agree that retail are looked down on...customers think it is acceptable to be rude and downright insulting..I have had customers speak slowly and condescendingly to me on a regular basis. What's worse is management doing the same. I've been in meetings where managers have been told to feedback information 'but keep it simple so they understand' .. the staff are often better educated and/or more intelligent and articulate than the managers.
I would have liked a job where I'm respected but a mix of poor choices and lack of opportunities have left me at the bottom of the pile. so I put up with tossers

I agree with a lot if these posts but don't necessarily agree with the people who seem to infer that just because they have a degree, they are somehow more intelligent and 'better' than their non-degree holding peers. I'm sure there are plenty of very intelligent and/or well-educated retail workers etc out there without degrees, just as I'm sure there are plenty with degrees that are still thick as shit.

that's why I put, in my comment, and/or...some of the guys I work with are clearly highly intelligent but not highly educated others are both...there are some with high qualifications, you would wonder how they find the place without assistance
And why should you look down on anyone...everyone has their part to play to make society work. When Mr Tosser is sneering at me he should ask himself if he would like it himself!

It's a fair point about degrees - although I would suggest a degree is an indication of a certain sort of intelligence and deep knowledge of a subject.

But in the real world, when you are working in trades, call centres, retail - it means fuck all. And I certainly never looked down on the people I worked with hour after hour.