If you were there 2 years then my vote would be to put it on your resume. Plus, if as you say you do a lot for them, then you should be able to find something you could present as an accomplishment. Just think about what you did that made them like you, and see if you can make that a bullet point.
Good luck. I hope you find a much better job. And soon.
Uh, I would be REALLY careful with this attitude. If you actually like your friend and want to keep him around in a friendish way I think you better be paying him promptly for bills and rent. It’s not his responsibility to help you out or cover you if you’re short one month - he’s your friend, not your mom.
Honestly, high-paying job or not, it won’t take very long before he’s totally pissed off at you and you’re out on your ear. I’m speaking from the ‘friend with a ‘pay me when you can’ has a high paying job’ perspective. I have no trouble helping someone out, but it really doesn’t take very long before ‘pay me when you can’ becomes ‘perhaps if you quit pissing your money away on crap you could pull your own weight you lazy bum.’
Anyhow - good luck - I hope you find something soon. And I would put this past job on your resume if only so it doesn’t look like you’ve been in a disassociative fugue for the past 2 years.
Are you sure? Is there enough for seven months? (Speaking from experience.)
Sir T-Cups, I know we’ve talked before about trying to help you get your foot in the door at a place in Chicago… Are you still in Indiana or are you here now? If you’re still in Indiana, are you near Indianapolis or Evansville by chance?
I ask because I know people at TV and radio stations out there that might have openings at some point and I’d have no problem recommending you, based on our previous exchanges. Post here or PM me.
Edited to add:
Oh, in case you have no idea who I am - I was HelloNinja before but changed my username.
Do you think anyone goes to college hoping to go back to working retail? I’m saying this as someone who graduated college in 2005 and six months later, was working part time retail because it was the only damn job I could find. Like I said, I totally understand being frustrated and thinking that you went to college to avoid working retail. But sometimes life likes to kick you in the jimmies and it’s doing that to a whole lot of people lately.
I bristled at the job being “beneath” you. I guess I can understand a poor word choice, but that attitude is common enough that I see it a lot. I often see it from people around our age that have been in this situation (which is mine, too): working-class parents sacrifice a shitload so their kids can go to college and have the opportunities they never had. Then said children sneer at working-class jobs, retail, etc. as “beneath” them, even though those jobs and a great work ethic were what enabled them to have the opportunities they received.
I totally agree with your bristling at the attitude. So Sir-T-Cupsyou don’t like this retail gig, and you’re bitching about how little money you have, so you’d rather just live off your savings account until something better comes along. How stupid. How is having no source of income in any way financially smarter than having a source of income that isn’t what you went to school to be?
And seriously, you think that just having a degree is supposed to magically open doors for you? Weren’t we all talking about that one kid in the NYT article who turned down a $40,000 a year job because he couldn’t see his career path at that place being what he wanted, and we all called him a complete entitled dumbass for it?
Yeah yeah, you went to school so you didn’t “have” to work retail. I’ll tell you what, I have relatives who are far more educated than you with 30 years of work experience in some pretty advanced fields, pushing grocery carts in parking lots because it’s the only thing that anyone is hiring for. Get over yourself. Everybody has to have shitty jobs for a while, then they move on. Sometimes it’s longer than 2 years.
I completely understand the feeling. I think it was just a poor word choice. It really sucks to spend four years and probably 10,000+ on a fancy piece of paper, only to have your 16 year old supervisor ask you for help on his algebra homework. However, it would suck a lot more to have been incredibly successful for 30 years and then be in the same situation.
Looking at some of these responses I’m very confused…Why are some of you so against me trying to make my life better?
I’m quitting because I hate my job, am making no money, and am miserable. I’m quitting to make my life better…and half of you in this thread are saying how stupid I am. Get over myself? Why? I said I misspoke a bit with the “beneath” me thing…and that my overall thought process was taken out of context, but over half of these posts are you guys chastising me for attempting to make my life better, make myself happier. Why am I so wrong in this?
Because you are just quitting. If you had a better offer, even at lower pay, then we’d be behind you. But you are not quitting to make your life better, you’re just quitting.
Find another job, then come back!
Exactly. You’re quitting without another job of any sort lined up. You’re relying completely on the generosity of your roommate to save your ass while you look for a job that’s not beneath you. That’s not being a responsible adult.
Who cares if he just up and quits? If he were planning to leech of the govt somehow that would be one thing (funny how that is most peoples first thought around here), but he is spending his own money and resources.
Now he can devote 50+ hours a week to finding another job. What if he found another job that needed someone to start immediately? Not being stuck behind a register all day can open up a lot of possibilities.
Bullshit. Absolute bullshit. Where in my OP or in any of my responses did I say anything about just sitting on my ass and doing nothing? Where in any of my responses did I say that I was just gonna mooch off my roommate? I never did and for the second time (the first being the unemployment checks) this board has put words in my mouth.
Just quitting? This isn’t a puppy that I promised to take care of and then gave up on, this isn’t me dropping out of school to follow the Grateful Dead…I am quitting so that I can get a better job. I said from the beginning that I am hurting myself by continuing to work there. I am losing hours in the week (Thank you PaulAvery) and when a job isn’t coming I just sit back and think “well at least I am employed”. I don’t want to be "just employed"anymore. I want what I feel I deserve; and with the personality and work ethic that I have I deserve a better job and life. So I am doing that.
The only reason my roommate came up in the first place is because someone happened to mention what I was gonna do about the bills. All I said was "I pay him and he is very supportive of my move and will let me pay him when I can. He knows that I am working hard on getting a new job and knows I am good for it. Somehow a throwaway comment about bills turned into me just living on the couch while he pays for everything. That’s not who I am, never was, never will be, and it surprises me that’s (again) what was automatically thought I was gonna do.
I will fully admit that the way I am going about this is unorthodox. It’s risky, ballsy, and probably a little bit stupid. But if there is one thing it isn’t, it’s that I am not “just quitting”.
What you deserve is completely irrelevant. There are people who deserve more than they have and people who deserve less than they have, but that doesn’t mean the former will have their situations improve or the latter have their situations change either. I landed back behind a register for a stint after I finished my masters, so I know how feels to be stuck in a dead-end, but I had no illusions that feeling like I deserved better was going to change anything.
Would you be happier have it characterized as gambling? The route you’re picking, which is to drop the job that pays the bills and go all out in the hopes of finding a better job before your savings runs out, rather than carving out time to search for a better job while you’re employed, is basically taking your money to Vegas rather than investing it.
Best of luck in your search. 