For the people who haven’t worked in retail, consider yourself lucky, and for those who have and moved on from it, I am thoroughly jealous. Let’s be honest, working in retail is one of the hardest jobs to do. Physically it is exhausting. You are constantly running around restocking, but mentally it is draining. Nobody fully understands how tiring it is until they work it, yet for some strange reason we stay in retail and deal with the struggles of it on the daily.

1. Never having a Saturday off ever in your life.

When you work retail it is pretty much inevitable that you are stuck every weekend at your job. There are days when this is awesome because it is miserable out, and there’s nothing to do, but come on, not every day is miserable and most are beautiful.

2. Dealing with the rudest customers ever.

If I had a nickel for every time a customer has asked to speak to my manager because of me, I wouldn’t have to work in retail anymore. We all have our bad days, but people need to treat the employee’s right. Just because you’re assisting a customer with a purchase doesn’t mean that you’re below them. Rude customers not only ruin your day, but they make work ten times more stressful.

3. Having random pains all over your body.

Retail takes a toll on you. One day you will just start feeling random pains all over. I’m being serious. It’s weird, I know but it happens. When you’re running back and forth, jumping from customer to customer for eight hours straight, five days a week your body will get tired. It’s a given.

4. Spending more than half of your paycheck on items from your store.

Literally, this happens more than I’d like to admit. Okay, so I fully believe that retail stores do this on purpose. They give you really good discounts so you end up spending almost your entire paycheck back to the company. This is the worst struggle of being in retail. You know where all the good items are and you pretty much have the first pick at everything, which is dangerous.