Originally Posted by
mtb_addict
I would luv to talk bike allday as a retail worker. But the real problem is not pay, it is the cost of living is so high. There's no affordable housing. They build new homes that are all expensive. And healthcare cost, etc.
Dunno, if my experience working in a games shop is anything to go by, you wont be "talking shop" all day with any regularity. That was what I'd looked forward to as an employee, and what seeingly a dozen kids a day applying / asking for a job there also wanted. Basically didn't happen unless the shop was unusually dead. There was always something to clean, stock, inventory, find, work on, etc. Pretty much the only "regular" time to talk about stuff was in basic salesmanship, which was overwhelmingly the same basic stuff about a handful of core products.
But yes, Cost of Living - two other coworkers of mine and I sought to split a two bedroom apartment in the area and it still wasn't workable on our minimum wage.