Read the stories from today's professionals who worked in yesterday's retail jobs and the value that they gained from the experience. Then click the "Share Your Retail Lessons" link to add your own retail experience and lessons learned below.
What Was the Value of Your Retail or Restaurant Job to Your Non-retail Career?
Are you successful in a non-retail career and still using some of the skills and lessons that you learned from an early experience working in retail stores or restaurants? What is your business or ca…
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Value of Working Retail Jobs Was Learning How to Impress Customers
I'm now the Community Manager at Powhow.com, a global market place for live webcam classes. I get to work with and learn from top instructors, help them launch their online studios, and connect them …
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Editor Learned Mutlitasking and Communication Skills Working in Restaurant Jobs
Editor for MoneyCrashers.com I'm responsible for editing and formatting articles before they are posted on our website or at a variety of other personal finance websites. I'm also responsible for ens…
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Gracious High Quality Service is Value of F&B Service Job for One Chiropractor
Today I am a chiropractor with a practice in Lambertville, New Jersey. I am also the author of "Magic Nights: A Treasure Map and Travel Guide to the Ocean of Power and Possibility in Your Sleeping Mi…
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Restaurant Job Teaches Wealth Manager About Real Work and Real Jobs
Founder and owner of DeYoe Wealth Management in Berkeley, CA. We are a small financial planning firm and we oversee almost $100 million for 160 clients. We don't just invest money and focus on return…
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Customer Engagement Lessons Learned In Restaurant Job Help PR Success
President of Driving Force Public Relations, an award-winning boutique public relations agency in New Jersey, which provides services in website design, social media management, advertising, copywrit…
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College Restaurant Work Provided Key Skills for Marketing Director's Success
Director of Marketing for UHY LLP, a certified public account firm, responsible for CRM implementation, managing an external support team, coordinating and executing events, strengthening relationshi…
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How a Retail Store Job Can Lead Directly to Television Career
Executive Producer and on-air personality for Unbridled TV. I credit my work in retail with the start of my TV career. At the time when I worked at Spector's, the local TV station called to see if s…
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Marketing Director Learned About Successfully Driving Revenue From a Retail Job
Director of Marketing and Business Development at ThunderSale.com, a flash sale site which will provide one daily deal every day in 200+ categories of merchandise. You can call me a one-man band for …
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Teen Lost Shyness, Gained Communication Skills From Working Target Retail Job
I work part-time for an SEO company, includes things like writing articles and publishing them online, writing for a blog, commenting on other blogs, writing guest blog posts, content curation via so…
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Social Media Manager Learned Her Social Skills Working a Subway Restaurant Job
I am currently the Social Media Manager for My Corporation.com, a web-based company that provides business formation services such as incorporation, forming an LLC, filing for trademarks, protecting …
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Restaurant Serving and Delivery Taught Business Owner Entrepreneurship Skills
CEO and co-founder of Welcome Mat Services, an Atlanta, Georgia based marketing strategies and technology company that provides direct mail gift-checks to people who have recently changed their addre…
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Extreme Retail Customer Focus Creates Website Owner's Success
Spent several years in sales, regularly calling back to the customer service that I learned in retail. Now a self-employed business owner of PocketYourDollars.com, a website that helps people get out…
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Leadership Coach Learned Service and Happiness Philosophy In Restaurants
I finally closed my restaurants in 1999 after a 20 year run, that was another full education in its own! I returned to the University of Louisville, earned a degree in Training and Development, a Coa…
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"Keep Cooking or Die" Lesson from Restaurant Led to Advertising Agency Success
Today I own Bella Group, a branding company (advertising agency) in Jupiter, Florida which specializes in creating branding vehicles for companies, products and people. This week we celebrate 10 year…
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Retail Work Helped Me Be a Better Yoga Clothing Designer
Working in that True Religion setting really prepared me for selling my own clothing. I am now the Chief Visionary & CEO of my own business, designing and selling yoga clothing, which can be seen onl…
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