Retail, easy. Like, I enjoy what I do for my job but the people that my store attracts, make it cumbersome. People coming to me all the time with phones in my face of listings to other stores thinking we have them, people impatient, people thinking we have everything and people being deliberately vague but getting pissed when you ask them what they mean.
I own a contracting company. We are expanding to just doing commercial and industrial jobs because doing smaller 1 day to 2 week jobs for customers on their houses I can be an absolute nightmare if you get a client that’s unreasonable. A lot of the time these small jobs barely make me any money and are barely worth my time, especially trying to manage them with my employees while also keeping these larger jobs moving. Clients want something small done on a wall, for next to nothing, and don’t understand that to make things perfect you often have to tear down to the bare bones and build it back up to make it look brand new. Shoddy framing or old designs can make it impossible to make something look as good as brand new. And then they will come and nitpick and then try to get money off of the job at the end of a project. It’s not worth dealing with a lot of the time.
I grew up in a construction family. Father was a fireman and all his coworkers had other construction skill sets so when they were off work they helped each other build their homes.
I thought it was too hard and too hot work to follow into the business.
So I became a chef…
…and I think about that a lot.
Chefs make good concrete guys. Same work attitude needed.