I have decided on a title for my RETAIL memoir. I need to work on details but thought I would comment on that. It will be called “How may I help you?” “My __ (age to be determined) years in retail and how I finally escaped”.
The book will detail all I can and want from EVERY retail job I have had over the years starting in 1998. So at this point its 16 years worth. I am unsure for now when my last retail job will be and so I cant say how long it will be in the title but it would be nice for my current retail job to be my last and for this to all end by next year (therefore it would be 17 years!). Shall see.
I just need to dedicate myself to writing details down and working on this. I can work on past jobs while working this one. And leave this one till last. All the gory details I can recall.
Since 2004 I have been keeping work journals for all my jobs. I began with Barnes & Noble when I knew they were closing and my original idea was to just write about a job I loved because it was going away. But figured it would be more interesting to do ALL my retail jobs. However B&N was only my 2nd retail job so I have held MANY since then some I don’t even tell anyone about as the jobs ended badly or were very short.
This will all come out in the memoir and wont matter as I wont be in retail anymore. I have decided to not change names of the business either who cares at that point. It wont affect me. I wont name actual co-workers I can change that but the business itself will be there.
I need to get my work journals they are currently in my garage (or in storage but I do think they are at home and not there) and that will help too for jobs before my move out here in 2011).
