What's your idea of both the ultimate retail job and non-retail job ?

[KL70]

What for you would be the ultimate (whatever your definition of that is) retail store job describing what you'd do and also the ultimate non-retail store job
you'd most love to work in, if you had to have or choose one and please say why.

[AdminAssistant]

If you've ever listened to Daniel Tosh, he does a bit where he describes the restaurant he'd open if he won the lottery. Servers get paid $1000/hour plus tips, plus bonuses if they punch customers.

I'd like that. :devil:

[tropicsgoddess]

My ideal non-retail job would be working as a call center rep and get paid $100/hour with the power to do overrides with bonuses for not caving to SC's and EWs. :devil:

[crazylegs]

If I had all the money I needed to live and had the retail job of my choice it would be security where I do security and no loss prevention (ie paperwork).

Management allow (encourage) arrests.

[Gawdzillers]

Retail: Salesman at a music store. (Sam Ash, Guitar Center, etc.)
Non-retail: In a band, session musician, guitar tech, producer, guitar maker, etc.

I'm a music nut.

[ShinyGreenApple]

Ultimate retail job is one in which the customers who come in are nice, sane, even-tempered people who are genuinely glad to be doing business with you, even if it's something as simple as buying a gallon of milk. You know they type, they're never in a hurry and treat you like an actual human being, a friend, in some cases, and they really do have the ability to make your day better.

Should an SC or EW come in, I'd have the power to deal with them as I see fit :angel:

Non-retail? I'd be making movies. I'm not sure whether I'd be directing, acting, or working on props and effects, but you can bet I'd be involved in some way or another. Whenever I watch the documentaries and behind the scenes parts of movies, I get the worst sort of longing to be a part of it all.

[Dr Yorick]

Nothing in retail. After 31 years I had enough
Non-Retail- Coroner's investigator

[the_std]

Retail: high end specialty camera store, ohhhhh baby. (Actually just applied to one, fingers crossed)

Non-retail: art photographer.

[AnaKhouri]

Non-retail: Full-time author.

Retail: Hmm...I'm getting seriously burned out so I can't think of a single retail job I would really like right now.

[AccountingDrone]

What for you would be the ultimate (whatever your definition of that is) retail store job describing what you'd do and also the ultimate non-retail store job
you'd most love to work in, if you had to have or choose one and please say why.

Retail is out, I am physically handicapped.

Well, I telecomute already doing a nice job with a great boss that I just love to death ... so it is fairly close to most peoples dream nonretail job, but what I would absolutely LOVE to do is be paid to read slush for SF/fantasy publishing house ... electronic text format preferrably because I am pretty much housebound, and I think shipping me cases of manuscripts would end up getting expensive. Other wise they would have to hire mrAccountingDrone or help him get a job so we could move to being local and he could stop off and pick up/drop off cases of manuscripts every few days=)

[Salted Grump]

Non-Retail: Anything that lets me be with my family.

Retail: Game Shoppe Manager (Electronic and Pen&Paper)

[powerboy]

If you've ever listened to Daniel Tosh, he does a bit where he describes the restaurant he'd open if he won the lottery. Servers get paid $1000/hour plus tips, plus bonuses if they punch customers.

I'd like that. :devil:

That is my ultimate retail job.

Non Retail. Professional Wrestler while being a Paranormal Investigator. Can't stop being a ghost hunter

[GingerBiscuit]

Non-retail- author. Actress. Something using my creative ability, PLEASE.

Retail- I'd have to actually set up my own shop. A book shop that does NOT sell shitty best-seller JUNK (you know the stuff) and only sells books by lesser-known authors with actual imagination and ability. There would be a very strong no-sc policy, that would pretty much involve a shark-tank.

Shame it wouldn't make any money, really.

[smileyeagle1021]

I'll do both realistic dream and out of left field dream.

Realistic
retail- Costco... nuff said
non-retail- either an Auditor or a revenue manager, though I'm leaning towards auditor

left field
retail- I can't think of a left field dream job that involves retail...
non-retail- kinda related to the auditor job, I would LOVE to be a hotel rater... get paid to travel and evaluate hotels... can you get much better than that.

[friendofjimmyk]

I had landed a dream job. It was by far the best I've ever worked.

I worked for a real estate investor. One of those types that buys "ugly houses", slaps a band-aid on them, and turns around and sells them for a profit. When I say "ugly houses" I'm talking about ones that are on the verge of foreclosure or up for sale due to some circumstance where the seller has to get rid of it fast and cheap.

Anyway - I demolished, painted, remodeled, cleaned, tiled...whatever. If I couldn't do it - I had the power to hire the contractors that could do it. He had several houses and condos. I would live in the house and/or condo that I was doing the most work in. I made good money - I was an independent contractor, so I didn't pay taxes - well, I was supposed to - eventually - but I never lasted that long.

Alas, I lost the job because I was still using drugs. My life was falling apart around my ears and it was becoming very apparent to anyone that was around me that I couldn't manage anything. My boss ended up finding the rehab for me that I went to - said I could go and get back to work - but fired me in the parking lot. *le sigh*

Oh well. Don't do drugs kids!

[lastofthesummerwine]

Ideal retail job (there's an oxymoron if ever one existed!): Anyone jumping line in the store would become my hostage and released only at my pleasure. Their day in my "care" would probably involve re-folding sheets torn out of original packaging. Not much doubt that they'd become pretty proficient after, oh, six hours practice.

Ideal job: Rock and roll critic-- anywhere, anytime and very reasonable salary request

[PizzaDrone]

Ideal retail - Have just applied for it *fingers crossed*. Going to shops/schools and taking photographs of families and the like. Also selling the photographs to them afterwards. Or setting up my own bar where there's a no-tolerance policy against whiny customers and wrestling named theme cocktails. The "Sensational Sherri" is just too good not to be used.

Non retail - Kind of like above only it was going to hospitals to take the first photos of mothers and their babies. Just sounds so sweet. Otherwise wrestling photographer/fashion photographer/something like that. Teaching media/film (where I get to choose what we study, Brass Eye, Mighty Boosh and Martin Scorsese all the way!).