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technically, we could all come in at 6:00 a.m. and leave at midnight while taking some work home—but we shouldn’t. However, if someone on the team takes it upon himself to prove that such a workload is, in fact, completely feasible—the rest of you are absolutely screwed.
RETAIL JOB
    Your worst enemy here is the customer. You spend your days cleaning up after people who think that a dressing room is their own personal playpen in which to throw things around to amuse themselves, and the products you’ve so lovingly arranged are there to be destroyed at their leisure.
Why You Want to Quit
FOOD SERVICE JOB
    Because spending all day staring at people eating delicious-looking food that you have zero time to eat, all while living off tips that some customers seem to get a kind of sadistic thrill out of cheating you on, can become grating after a while. It’s clear that some people get sucked into the relatively easy money of tips and find themselves, long after they’d hoped to move on to something that doesn’t leave them smelling like bacon/a deep fryer at the end of the day, locked into expenses that they can only cover with a good Friday night shift.
OFFICE JOB
    Despite all the societal benefits that an office job undoubtedly provides, it also often leaves you with a feeling of perpetually being at work. There is always something more that can be done—a project to polish, an e-mail to send, research to do—and you know that for every minute you just chill out watching TV and eating take-out Thai food, some insufferable go-getter a few cubicles down is efficiently squirreling away lots of extra work to bring in and show the bosses the following morning. The job, in some ways, begins to infiltrate and consume other aspects of your life—as it is often considered “not a job, but a career” (i.e., something that you are expected to sacrifice a normal social/romantic life to get ahead in).
RETAIL JOB
    There are relatively few fulfilling aspects of a retail job, to be honest. The money is often decent, but never good. You have few options for upward mobility. The customers, as previously mentioned, are egregious. Oftentimes, stores will give you a discount that is just high enough to keep you spending your whole paycheck on their overpriced products. The daily grind of this tends to wear on you, until you have a hard time thinking of any job in the entire world—including the person who scoops up horse poop at rich people’s farms—as less enticing for one reason or another.
Why You’re Not Going to Quit
FOOD SERVICE JOB
    The tips. The sweet, sweet tips.
OFFICE JOB
    Once you get sucked into an office job—and by that, I mean you’ve invested enough of your soul to make it seem like a part of your life, the way another human being might be—there is a sense of obligation about it. You’ve already climbed, say, six rungs up the corporate ladder (and had to step on the faces of some decent people along the way), so why would you bail out now? Office jobs often have a tendency to define you, as they have the unfortunate reputation of being “your real job.” People in the serviceindustries will often talk about how they’re just making money while they wait to find the real thing, and once you get a lock on said actual job, it’s hard to let it go. You are no longer just “Sarah, blond girl and skilled maker of pancakes,” you are, “Sarah, blond marketing director for That Company Over There.” Even if we end up hating it, it has often crept into too much of who we are as a person to just drop it.
RETAIL JOB
    The discount, though not enough to keep you locked behind a cash register on its own, is part of an overall comfort zone you can easily slip into when working retail. The money is just enough not to be bad, usually, and the job is often so easy that leaving it seems like more trouble than it’s worth. The tired