As summer comes to a close, so do those summer jobs. One of the most common summer jobs that many of us are fortunate or unfortunate enough to hold is working in retail. Whether or not working in the industry is something you do for a couple of weeks, months, or years, there are many struggles that we all know to be "retail."

1. A smile isn’t always an indication of happiness, and after standing on your feet for ten hours, it’s an indication of madness verging on serial murder. After nine o’clock, customers should only approach a smiling retail employee at their own risk – or with a baseball bat behind their back.
2. You will make a lot of friends working retail, and you may even get some numbers from the customers you don’t want to drown like a bag of kittens. However, no relationship will be as important as your relationship with Dr. Scholl’s.
3. People always say that they hate it when retail employees approach them or “bug” them. Trust me, they don’t want to talk to you either.
4. People always move at their slowest pace when there is an obnoxiously long line behind them.
5. No one ever uses cash anymore, except when they have large bills that are difficult to break or an obnoxious amount of change they want to pawn off.
6. A half-hour break will never actually feel like a half hour, and it will seem like the shortest part of your day. However, during high-traffic times, a half hour will feel like forever.
7. No matter how sh*tty your job is, your bosses will find a way to make it worse by selecting the most hideously unattractive uniform possible. Customer service is like being a bridesmaid in a wedding – but without the after-party.
8. Bill Clinton claims to be able to sleep on four hours a night. You will never understand how that is possible until you have to work back-to-back doubles or have two weeks without a day off, and you still won’t know how you’re alive.
9. The second best thing about your job will be the discount, unless it’s one of those places that only gives you 10% off. You should quit that sh*t. A place that doesn’t value you enough to at least allow you to bask in the fruits of your labor doesn’t deserve your egregiously underpaid service.
10. The best thing about any crappy job will be the people that work with you – the ones who know everything that is going on, and the irreplaceable bonds you share with them.