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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worked retail basically consistently until I finished law school (Gap, Macy's, Nordstrom's). I'm a DOJ trial attorney now and basically a middle class working mom. I think working retail did a few good things for me. I have a better sense of dealing with people. As an attorney, it's actually funny to me to see how people treat witnesses because they never, ever had to deal with a difficult human who had to be won over. Browbeating isn't effective. I'm actually a better trial lawyer because I can connect with people on a level that my peers can't. So, YMMV with this view.[/quote]

Agree. I was an RN and now a nurse practitioner. Years of retail and even assistant manager really helped my social skills, delegating appropriately, and cleaning up messes. Figuratively and physically. Many colleges are now looking for kids who worked. They see these coddled kids with perfect but fake transcripts and the "volunteer work" and realize most of these kids have zero time management and work ethic.  Lots of depressed kids on college. Plenty of BA graduates without a job. No realization how the real world works.  My husband is a business owner (which he earned while bartending in college when the previous owner hired him for sales immediately after interacting with him multiple times) and he will take a hard worker over a perfect looking resume with very little grit. This assumption that all you need is good grades with a little bit of school activities is a joke. [/quote]

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