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Hey guys, I’m back from my weekend at UU! In a nutshell, I watch all of Azumanga Daioh in English, met a lot of new members of Genshiken UU, and had an excellent time hanging out with friends new and old!

Changing gears, I was looking through my feeds today and read an excellent post by Simple Sapien called “11 Signs That You Should Quit Your Job.” After reading through the post, I realize now that a lot of those signs were apparent when I was working at Wal-Mart:

1.   I had no passion working there – I don’t think that I was ever passionate about working as a cashier at Wal-Mart. Sure I felt good helping some customers, but it seemed artificial. I felt like I was calling myself a florist and only selling fake flowers. My “passion” wasn’t real because I felt like I was mearly a tool for Wal-Mart to use in order to make a profit.

2.   I didn’t get paid enough – I’ve been living with my parents again for almost a year. I sleep on a couch and have to pay $200 a month for “rent” that’s being used to create a guest room downstairs that I’ll use until I move out. No matter what job I’ve done since I started working, I never seemed to get paid enough. Just when I thought that I was making good money, big fucking bills seemed to materialize in order to rob me of my newly-increased income.

I never made enough money to live by myself, much less comfortably by myself. I’ve always relied on living with other people, whether it be with my parents or with my aunt and cousins.

3.   I dreaded coming into work everyday – I felt like I never had enough time to do anything, regardless of how much I did. I was always looking at my watch to see how much longer I had before I had to go to work. This kind of thinking ruined the days I had to work, even if I came in at 6 PM and had all day to do something. It even began to mess with me on my days off.

4.   My work schedule never fit my life – No matter how many days off I had, I felt like I could never really go anywhere or do anything. If I wanted a day off for whatever reason, I would have to request it almost a month in advance. Honestly, how practical is that?! If I still had my job at Wal-Mart, I sure as hell wouldn’t have gone to visit my friends at UU for the whole weekend because I would be scheduled to work.

5.   I was embarrassed to tell people what I did for a living – “Oh, you’re a teacher? That’s nice. What do I do? Well, I work as a cashier for Wal-Mart. It’s not the best, but it makes me money.” Ugh! I hate that sentence! “It’s not the best, but it makes me money.” As if making money can justify whatever I do. “What do I do? I sell drugs. It’s not the best, but it makes me money.”

I felt as a single 22-year-old guy that I was doing a teenager’s or an old woman’s job. Should I break my back like every other 22-year-old guy in my area? Hell no! I want to utilize my strengths (physical strength not being one of them). This leads me to my next point.

6.   My strengths weren’t being utilized and my weaknesses were being overused – I’m not a very physical person. Sure I do some physical activity like biking, but for the most part, I like to sit at my computer and do things. No, not those kinds of things! Okay, maybe sometimes, but not a lot! My passions for anime, guitars, reading, etc. didn’t matter working at Wal-Mart. Even the things I knew a good deal about like computers rarely came into play working there.

Although Wal-Mart isn’t a physical job, I have done some jobs like fast food where I’m always on the move. I don’t think that I’m a very fast worker, but I was forced to be fast. Did doing this turn my weakness into a strength? No, it just made my results sloppier because I had less time to deal with the tasks at hand.

7.   My job was unfulfilling – I never really felt like I did the world or even my community a service when I worked at Wal-Mart. Sure I helped out some customers when they needed it. Similar to my first reason, I felt like my “services” were fake and my “genuine need to help people” was just a cover-up in order to make money. In a sense, they were.

8.   I had no desire at all to do my best – I felt like a quad-core CPU acting like a single-core CPU running at 2% capacity. I know that I can do amazing things, but that I couldn’t do amazing things at Wal-Mart. Wait, I take that back. I did one amazing thing at Wal-Mart; I quit.

There you have it; 8 reasons why I quit my job at Wal-Mart.

Well, I’m gonna look more into building another website. Later days!

TheAndySan