About having a shitty job

Margo
Margo
Aug 8, 2017 · 2 min read

I am a shop assistant. I sell tea. Sometimes, when I want to sound fancy, I say that I am a Tea Lady. But really, I just sell tea.

And lately, people have made me feel like my job is less important than theirs. I don’t mean health care jobs, obviously, more like selling is less important than doing some community management or leading a project in a big fancy company. Let me tell you : like most people with shitty jobs, I put my heart in it. And I do create financial and human value. I make the world go round !

Thanks to the guy who whash windows day after day, people in their office can enjoy the sun light and salesmen in their shops can expose theirs products…He is valuable.

I didn’t choose to work in a shop. I lost myself in 5 years of study that bored me, in a path that didn’t interested me, but that reassured my parents. They didn’t want me to follow a passion, it was to risky. They wanted me to have a real job, to be safe, really. Now I have a steady job and they are ashamed of me.

For a long time, I thought it was just my family circle that was this harsh. But I started to talk with my friends and to notice the behaviours of people with sellers, baristas, barmen, etc. It made me sad and angry to realise that because we have what is considered as “shitty jobs”, we are hold in low esteem.

Well big news for everyone : we are sensitive human beings. Yep!

Most people didn’t choose where they stand today, but we are living this reality, working jobs to have a roof over one’s head, to eat, to live. We are not our jobs.We are not stereotypes. We are way more than that.

We have to bear mean comments, ungrateful tasks and requests all day long. I have to smile to awful people when I just want to smash their face and to put their pompous asses out of my shop. I don’t need to be juged in and out of my workplace by people who doesn’t know me. Today I am not ashamed of my job anymore. I have met so many interesting people thanks to it. I have learned and grew up and became stronger, wiser and more confidant and creative in my personnal life.

Can everyone say the same?

Margo
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