The endlessly draining world of customer service.

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I just have a mini-rant. I must commiserate a little bit... I AM SICK OF CUSTOMER SERVICE JOBS. I work in a coffee shop, and right now I only work 6 hours a week, during the dead time of day, so it's mostly cleaning. That is great...but I'm thinking of ditching the customer service world entirely in favor of something where I don't have to interact with a new person every five seconds and am expected to know how to idly banter. However, I ALWAYS seem to get stuck on customer service, because I am female. I am convinced this is the case. I've tried to specify that I DON'T want to work with the public, but they never listen.

I'm sure I'm not alone in the fact that serving one person after the next is EXTREMELY draining. The only way I can cope during a busy time is to become completely wooden and businesslike, and even then, it gets to a point where I want to explode. I notice everything, and everyone, and it becomes mentally exhausting. At least the coffee shop is dimly lit.

I have another small section to my rant. I'm feeling a little discouraged lately, because I am training to be a jeweler, and though I am very good at what I do, the things I make do not have popular appeal. People don't seem to want to buy them, because they are kind of weird. I'm an artist, apparently. What will I do if I can never get a job doing something I love? Also, materials are extremely expensive nowadays. I'm feeling a little defeated. I just wish I could be pleasantly surprised by something, someday, in the vast world of employment. I get exhausted working with people, and I get lonely working alone. What to do?

Thank you for listening to my rant.

My summer job will be painting a house. Much better.

Are there any industrial parks in your area?--you might try knocking on some doors and seeing if there is anything you can do.

It is very hard to make a living as an artist--even the best artists known today often have had great difficulty making a living off of their art.

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I assure you, your rant is heard and is much like a very large percentage of those who are here (myself included). granted, only one of my current jobs is directly customer service, but the amount of interaction is pretty small (time of day/year pending). The other job is more maintenance, but I have to be semi-outgoing to promote more business. I honestly had to take a full week off to try and reset myself (worked a bit). In all honesty, I'm working maybe 28 hours a week (on average) between both of them (15 hrs at one, 13 at the other) and yes I'm try to get out of it and into computer programming . . . but, the economy still sucks. The only thing you can do is find a way to shift gears into something close to what you like and put effort into perfecting it enough to be employed with it.