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January 11, 2006, 6:11 pm PST
 Quote From: lucky35 Hi, I am a Graduate student and within 1 year I will have my MBA, my undergrad is in Business Marketing. This past holiday season in October, I took on a seasonal-part-time position with the second largest retailer next to Wal-Mart. I've never worked in Fashion/Clothing Retail and I wanted to try it out, plus make some extra money for holiday gifts. Well, I have done extremely well. I sold probably 300 store credit within these first 3 months of service with this company and I thought I would never sell even 1! Needless to say, if it wasn't for me the store would not of met their goal.
My frusteration is coming with the fact that all the Associate and Assistant Managers, Head of Store, and District Manager have been with the company 3-10 years! Even though I have a lot more education than these Managers (I know for sure 3 out of the 4 have absolutley zero college), I feel like I can't compete with all their seniority. Upon my seasonal review, they told me they enjoyed working with me so much and wanted to talk to me at a later time about become "The Store Card Trainer". I asked for a raise and they said they are only given once a year in the summer. I am out sick today which means I lose the money I could of made today. I'm a little bitter because I want to go from seasonal-part-time to seasonal-full-time (at least 30 hrs/week.). My college advisor tells me I must put my career on hold until I finish up my MBA within a year. Even though I'm not technically full-time, I still am scheduled full-time hours most of the quarter.
I don't know what to do. I feel embarrassed to work around all these other people with all my education and I don't even have any benefits or anything with this company other than a clothing discount, but I feel like I need the experience if I do want to ever move-up or apply at another job for a management position post-graduation. What should I do?! These seasoned employees act like all the education in the world doesn't make a difference to them, it's experience that counts. If it wasn't for me the store would not sell any store credit cards. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm not the #1 seller of the whole company.
Thank you for your insight. come down off your self imposed MBA high horse. I personally would take experience over an MBA anyday - why - I doubt that you have any experience except for summer. When I was in retailing years ago - I found out that the people who knew what was going on were the ones who had spent time on the floor for at least 3 years and all the BAs and MBAs just coming in had no clue as to what was going on.
You said one thing right - You do need the experience, and your degree won't give you that at all. Look at Oramost a Phd on the Apprentice - caught Lying on camera, because she thought that 'she' had it all - and about Troy McClain the high schooler - he almost out did them all.
Your not going to like me but I detect you have a lot of 'academia' and not much common sense.
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