Coffee shop beauty.

[AniaSM]

I was in a coffee shop today and the girl who served me was so beautiful. She wore no make up and just seemed really kind and pleasant. This isn't really a question but I was thinking she was wasted in a coffee shop and I wondered what she could have achieved if circumstances were different for her. A bit sad really. Not that theres anything wrong with working in a coffee shop.

[sleepy1]

it was meeeeeeeee lol

[cazzz1975]

it may have been a part time job, she may be a student or have another job simultaneously??

also remember however lowly some of these jobs may seem they are very much needed!!!

[mrknowall]

hi sleeeps

[sleepy1]

hello

[Pippa68]

Would you rather a fugly munter served you coffee? I reckon the job suited her perfectly..customer service needs attractive folk ;o)

[cazzz1975]

lol a fugly munter....

I have to use that in a sentence tomorrow

[campbellking]

Perhaps she doesn't want to end up as a cocaine smoking anorexic model!

[campbellking]

Or maybe even a cocaine snorting size 0

[Scarlett]

Don't assume it was her full time job! When I was a student I still had dreadful jobs having graduated with a 1st class degree. I was then working in a fruit and veg shop part time. My sisters were working in a pub and in a sandwich shop. The reason we did this was because we were actually musicians, gigging every night, and didn't want a "career" because our career was going to be music! We just wanted a cash in hand (sorry!) casual day job. A lot of students find the transition from graduate to full time employment hard anyway, especially arts graduates like me!

[Pippa68]

Why are people of the opinion that working in a shop full time is a worthless job??

[Scarlett]

It's not worthless! It's just that working in a coffee shop is not what a young person would necessarily do full time at their age, out of choice. Most young people will be at College or working towards a career, if they are not Mums etc. Coffee shop staff do tend to be "transient", by nature. This is an observation, not a criticism. I teach young people and I have never come across one whose career aim was to work in one. Own one, yes, but not work in one and nothing more.

[Pippa68]

So if this was her full time job, that would be ok? personally I wouldn't assume anything..as long as she was doing a good job, that is all I need to know.

Crikey if everyone was aiming for careers rather than job there would be millions out of work and on the dole because working in a shop was beneath them.

Oh hang on a sec... ;o)

[Scarlett]

No it's not beneath them!! You do jobs for different reasons don't you... A lot of my friends work to pay the bills, to go on holiday, to put themselves through college, to help raise the kids, to pay the mortgage, to get them out of the house. These jobs are often short-term, just for the money etc. In fact I would say that most people have jobs for those reasons. Then there are people who have careers and define themselves through these careers. I am one of them. My job is more important to me than having a partner or kids. It is what I am. I know I am freakishly at the other end of the scale. But MOST young people are aiming for a career rather than a job. I teach 16+ and they are all after careers. The few I know that work full time in shops or bars are there because they chose not to do A Levels or go to College, so their parents have insisted instead that they get a job, rather than be unemployed. The ones I know that enjoyed their full time shop work are now in management. The ones that hate it are simply doing it for the money, until they have decided on a career path. I'm just reporting what I have found to be true in the last 15 years of teaching young people who then go into employment!!