25 Cent Sunglasses Or 200 Dollar Sunglasses? Take Your Pick
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25 Cent Sunglasses Or 200 Dollar Sunglasses? Take Your Pick

What it's like working at two vastly different jobs

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25 Cent Sunglasses Or 200 Dollar Sunglasses? Take Your Pick
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This summer I've acquired two similar but vastly different jobs. One of which is for the more low-income person, and another for the person who maybe makes a little bit more than that. I never thought that this summer I'd be working at one job where you can spend 25 cents on a pair of sunglasses and at the other, you can buy a pair of sunglasses for 200 dollars.

I've never worked in a job where I would serve more low-income folks, from all different walks of life. Usually, I worked in jobs where usually a little bit more money would be spent. I wasn't nervous for this job, but I knew it wasn't going to be easy.

At my second job, I served fancier types of people or at least people who made much more money than the customers at the other job. A typical retail job that I was used to.

The contrasts between these jobs really have me feeling all certain types of ways. I think it's interesting where one job I wear a t-shirt and jeans or even leggings, and at the other, I need to wear all dark colors and looking very business casual, which means, no jean material of any sort.

I get confused when someone is trying to bargain with me for an already VERY cheap product, while they don't realize if this was another place, they would not at all get the price we are given them. While at the other job, I'm sometimes astounded at how much someone is willing to pay for just one thing.

At one of my jobs, we take donations and they're not always the cleanest. Sometimes people will bring up their items to the counter and after their transaction, my hands will come up all dusty, and when I get home it'll take hours before my hands feel clean again. While at the other job, we clean each item thoroughly and even before the final step of the transaction, we clean the item again, while I leave that job feeling pristine.

Each job comes with its own community and own issues. Each has great things about it, but their downfalls too. I find myself preferring each job over the other on different days. I also find myself wishing I didn't have to work both, but hey, I got goals of stuff I want to buy this summer.

I guess many things go through my mind on my experience working at these two different jobs, and how I found myself come upon each of them this summer. With only 7 weeks left before going back to school, I wonder how my experiences will result come that time. Here is hoping all ends well and I won't lose my sanity working at these two contrasting jobs.

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