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Originally Posted by Boy Blunder

I'm currently an assistant technician/engineer at a small local radio station, though that's mostly because it's a lax environment and my father's the head engineer. But it's good, hands-on work, and because the staff is small and the environment is friendly, I've done some on-air work as well (specifically morning traffic reports).

Thing is, though, I don't actually have any specific skills in this line of work, and that's the thing that gets you most non-retail jobs - a skill set that is useful in that position. Neither of my previous retail jobs 'required' any skills from me that weren't taught on-the-job. The most I ever brought to the table was a knowledge of anime when I worked at Suncoast during high school (late 90s/early 2000s).

Truth be told, even with all the struggles of retail/customer service work, if I could make a decent living off of working in a specialty toy shop (or if we had enough money that I could do it more for fun than for financial survival), I'd jump at the chance. I know and love action figures like crazy, have since childhood, and after finding out about the local toy shop that's become my new hunting ground, I've spent a lot of time just talking shop with the employees and customers.

That sounds like a really cool job I would enjoy.

And I figured specific skills were required for non-retail. Sigh...its kind of a lose lose situation for me.

Suncoast was so awesome...I'm younger so I remember going there are as a kid. I'm still really sad theyre not around anymore.

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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

I forgot to answer this. I used to work in sales for the company I'm in but now I do administration, focusing on researching viable accounts for our company for various purposes. The great thing about it, is, that even if the pay is not all that great (I did make more in sales but had more stress), since it's non-paperwork oriented and our office has tried to mobilize its staff as much as possible, I work from home 90% of the time and go into the office 1-2 days and sit at a rotationally available cubical. I absolutely love the perks and the non-interactive nature of my job, as I'm an introvert by nature. Fortunately I'm not single and living alone because if I were it would probably be too much isolation. Plus, I can get my workouts done during my lunch break when the gym is not crowded like it would be during evenings, so I'm not completely alone. LOL.

Yeah, that's my problem. I'm single so the isolation would be really hard on me. I kind of am too isolated as it is. If not for this forum I think I'd be a nutter