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I mean, that's only because you/we romanticise our industry.

What a bizarre false dichotomy. Literal prostitution, retail job, or software development. There are plenty of others out there that are needed that people work in. Become an apprentice, learn a trade, and start business. Work in retail, become a manager, own a location, climb the ranks. Get a finance degree, work at a firm, create a consultancy.

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That all sounds hard.

Yeah, whodathunkit? Being successful involves effort

becoming a manager in retail is really not that hard. most of my friends that started working retail in high school are managers by now (unless they left for a better job).

Yup. One of my high school classmates was an assistant manager at the Burger King where we worked as soon as he graduated high school.

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