hey wassup like the title says i went to one of my local pet stores looking for aquarium plants and the manager came up and started talking with me about his firing of lazy and dumb employees then ended up offering me a job should i take it? the only reason i ask is cause im afraid itll turn my favorite hobby into something i hate do you think that could happen? please post your answers and opinions-jey
i got offered a job at pet store
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I can speak from experience here. I ended up leaving the hobby for many years because I got burned out working at pet stores.
However, like everyone else said, there are great perks to working at a pet store, discounts being the biggest. Make sure that you don't work too many hours and don't take it personal when customers don't care about their fish the way you do. That was the one thing that drove me to leave the hobby.
Of course I am back with a vengeance now (I'm going to pick up a 200 in the morning for my wife's RTC). So don't be afraid to give the petshop a chance. If you find yourself burning out on the hobby, just quit the job...
However, like everyone else said, there are great perks to working at a pet store, discounts being the biggest. Make sure that you don't work too many hours and don't take it personal when customers don't care about their fish the way you do. That was the one thing that drove me to leave the hobby.
Of course I am back with a vengeance now (I'm going to pick up a 200 in the morning for my wife's RTC). So don't be afraid to give the petshop a chance. If you find yourself burning out on the hobby, just quit the job...
I am sorry but I would not take it. I worked in a pet/fish store for about 6 months. I ended up absolutely hating everything about the damn people and fish.
You see how time to time you get people on here asking something along the lines of if they can put a Red Devil, Flower Horn, Arowana, Catfish, etc.. in their 30 gallon? Well you deal with idiots like that the whole day or some old woman *****ing at you why her Neons keep dieing on her. Did not learn anything new during the whole process, just witnessed once again how cold and stupid people are.
On top of all that, couple of months later I found a job that is by far easir and almost literally pays double.
You see how time to time you get people on here asking something along the lines of if they can put a Red Devil, Flower Horn, Arowana, Catfish, etc.. in their 30 gallon? Well you deal with idiots like that the whole day or some old woman *****ing at you why her Neons keep dieing on her. Did not learn anything new during the whole process, just witnessed once again how cold and stupid people are.
On top of all that, couple of months later I found a job that is by far easir and almost literally pays double.