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8. Is 7-11 the ultimate convience store?
Slurpees rule!!! LOL
I worked for a local convenience store chain named EZ Serve for about 5 years.
Managing a convenience store is a job I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
Your "freedom" is dependent on whether or not a bunch of minimum wage earning 18 and 19 year old kids decide to show up for work.
Most of the stores we had were small neighborhood stores. we didn't have any of the monster stores you see nowadays with 20 gas pumps and 4 people inside working. We had one person working at a time, and if someone decided to call in sick, or quit without notice, guess who had to go cover that shift?
What's worse is that it always seemed to happen on days that I was supposed to go see my son. I had to cancel so many visits it made me sick.
Plus I was on salary and didn't make one penny extra for pulling midnight shifts or doubles or whatever it was I had to do in order to keep the store open.
This was in the late 90's when the economy was booming and unemployment in my county was about 2%. It was ridiculously hard to find a warm body to put behind the counter, much less a dependable honest worker.
During the tail end of my time there is when I discovered the internet and stared building websites part time. I was desperate for another way to make money so I didn't have to run a convenience store any longer.
Also my son was getting older and was starting to notice when I didn't come to see him on the days I was supposed to. This was my main motivation for starting my own business where I could make my own hours. (Its so funny a friend of mine once said about me "yeah he peddles porn, but it's because of his family values....LOL)
So for well over a year and a half I worked from 5am-3pm at the store (plus whatever extra shifts I had to pull) and from 4pm until I passed out on my desk on websites. I didn't go on a date or have any kind of social life for almost 2 years.
Finally the day came that I quit my day job and devoted 100% of my working hours to this business. It was of course a risk, but one that I'm glad I took.
6 months after I went full time in this business, the convenience store chain I was working for filed for bankruptcy and closed all of its stores. So much for the "job security" and "guaranteed paycheck" I gave up on to do my own thing.
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