We asked a 17-year-old to give us all the details of their job working at a bookstore. The good parts of the experience and the bad. #StreetCents #BookTube #Job
@@mirabensvik3767 i’m in highschool rn and old enough to apply for a job, but the only thing is that i don’t have any bookstores near me (i mean there is one in the process of being built next to my school but sadly it’s going to be finished by around fall 2024, and by then i’ll be busy with act/sat and college stuff) :(
Out of all the jobs I've had my entire life, working at a bookstore was my favorite. It was actually my dream when I was younger to have my own bookstore.
I dream about being a warrior-scholar defending a massive library at the end of the world. I'm not being cute or making that up. It's literally what would keep me going, give me a purpose if it all goes to pot.
It's not really that hard to start a business, but it's hard to have the money to rend a place, buy the books you'll actually sell etc etc @@QTpatootie95
It’s about a girl trying too solve a murder that happened a couple years ago in her home town! I love it sm much because the plot twists r very unpredictable but not so out there that the make no sense and it sound like the author just wanted too trick u lol it also has a little bit of a cute romance (nothing spicy) and the characters r rlly lovable!
@@Jackie76493The book is about a murder that happened 5 years ago when Andie Bell was murdered and her boyfriend, Sal Singh, was acused of killing her and then killed himself (or thats atleast what people in the town believe) before he got questioned. But Pippa whos 17 years old decides to do a project about the case and figure out what really happened because she believes the killer is still out there. During her journey she meets many people who lie and dont fully say the truth about what happened that night she even gets a death threat telling her to stop the investigation. I really recommend reading it, im still in the process of reading but its a very good murder mystery book and has lots of twists. Hope this helps!
Although I loved the first one, it took me a month to actually get past the first few chapters of the second to get invested in it again and it's been a solid YEAR and I'm JUST getting past chapter 5 of the 3rd one. For some reason, I just can't get into the 2nd and 3rd like I could the 1st.
I'm sorry, it's a great video but can I just say... I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THAT BOOK YOU'RE HOLDING LIKE OMG IT WAS AWESOME! I'M ALMOST DONE WITH THE WHOLE SERIES
I used to work at a very large retail brand bookstore and they only paid $11 an hour. I took a break from working with them for a contract job. When I came back, I asked for a set number of guaranteed hours or potentially an increase in pay. Since in the time I had been gone I had been diagnosed with epilepsy. They could not guarantee me this, but instead said happily “but our employee discount has gone up to 50%!” Like. That’s not gonna pay my bills or keep me medicated and out of the ER 😞
A 50% discount sounds amazing but unfortunately you can't pay the bills with that. But for a person who just wants to fund their book addiction this would be a dream come true.
I know the exact retail one- I had to work a second job for a while because of that pay and ended up dropping the job at the bookstore. Funny enough tho I accidentally left before the 50% increase. But I did not regret the decision in the slightest!!!
Yeahhh, even at the end of my 3 and a half year stint at the chain that's in all 50 states I was still only making minimum wage... Not sustainable at all
The best part is being an anime fan and a worker knows what they're talking about when you're looking for a good manga recommendation for a new series in a specific genre. Our local store has 1 worker that's specialized in comics and manga and just as big a fan as many of us customers.
One of the cashiers at the Barnes and noble with the biggest manga section recognized my kids Giorno Jojo jacket right off the bat. She’s our favorite. They even had the Part 5 vinyl!
@@ketterdam_crowravi doesn’t get as much appreciation as he deserves and omg his relationship with pip is so cute😭 the ending of the last book made me cry
My mom worked at a Barnes & Noble back when I was around 5-8, and she absolutely loved it (especially the employee discount which she used a lot, partially to get my dad most of his D&D books) She doesn’t work at Barnes & Noble anymore bc we move a lot due to military, and there isn’t one in our area that we can easily drive to
my fave job ever was an indie bookstore and my least fave was a chain bookstore. bookshop job satisfaction really REALLY depends on management AND location (rich customers were the worst due to maaaany diff factors)
I thought working at a large indie bookstore was the dream…it was the opposite of that. Full time, minimum wage, you would get fired if you got caught reading or even leaning against the counter (even if the store was empty), no accommodation for most disabled shoppers (owners scoffed at me for learning customer service ASL because “deaf people don’t read”), chasing out people who were using book nooks to do really inappropriate stuff, and HR handled me asking for help with a coworker who was sexually harassing me by making it common knowledge amongst the staff. Meeting the occasional celebrity (it was in a popular ski town in Vermont) was the only benefit. 😬🤷🏻♀️
That sounds really bad, I never thought those experiences would be possible in a bookstore. Also, I've never met another disabled person who doesn't like to read, it's a great low energy hobby.
Damn that sounds like it would be such a sweet gig - a bookstore by a swanky ski resort??? - but instead employers find a way to fuck even that up…ridiculous 🙄
I volunteer at a used bookstore in my library and it’s pretty much the same. You get first access to books that come in before they get shelved, it’s a pretty sweet gig
Used to work for this company, was a manager in Quebec. I still miss it (not the company who were terrible) but the staff, books and customers I do miss.
oh wild, i wasn't expecting this to be about indigo, that's crazy! i used to love shopping at chapters indigo stores, but just a few days ago they closed one of the very few unionized locations, and the way the workers there were treated was awful :/ the company said something about it being because the location wasn't making enough money, but it was very obviously union-busting
Girl I worked in a bookshop for 3 years for €3.50 an hour this makes me so jealous but if you like books, go for it! Working with books was the best part of my day :)
Thanks dear StreetCents this is soooo awesome, I really wanna work in my fave comicstore in my Summer Holidays that would be so incredible! Your Humor is so relatable, especially the facial expressions and the „nasty“ XD
I worked at Chapters and something about the concrete floors left me at 22 with knee pain that lasted for a few months after I quit. The pay was criminal and there were no benefits for P/T workers and they manipulated the schedule to ensure you were never, ever anywhere near a full P/T schedule. I love books but it was wildly overrated.
Seventeen1?! Girl, you look like you’re 23 already having life figured out! Also as a person who doesn’t read books, I loved the skit. Might make something similar, but as other places instead of book stores.. for myself.
oh gosh i missed working for an old bookstore owned by this kind uncle from my neighbourhood. i remembered going there a lot throughout my childhood cause i love all of his collections of old fictional books, and one day he just came up to me, talking about his favourite book at that moment and asking me if i was ever interested in working there while i was on my break. of course, the pay was bearable for a student like me at that time, just gaining myself some allowance but the vibe and calm atmosphere of the bookstore in the middle of a small neighborhood was the thing that made me fell in love with it (plus all of the books that i could read for free). it's a shame now the old bookstore's closed cause the uncle had moved to another state, living with his son's family. the uncle even gifted me a harddrive before he moved, advising me to work hard for my dream and never losing myself amidst all the battle. i really wish i'll get another chance to meet the uncle again, proudly showing to him how much i've grown and achieved in life.
I worked at a small bookstore in my hometown and it was definitely one of my favorite jobs. I’d go back to it as a part time thing if I still lived in the town!
I was at my local library so often that eventually I just started helping other people look for books. I got a job at the library in the next suburb over and had so much fun working there.
I worked at a supermarket as a part time job, but had applied to some book stores as well and got nervous about quitting too early on, but my mother was like: no, if you get a job at a book store you’re immediately switching to that. Just because I told you you need a job, it doesn’t mean you have to have a job you don’t like. And I don’t think I’ll ever forget that (I didn’t get the book store jobs and the supermarket job was fine, but if I need another part time job I’ll definitely be looking out for a bookstore job)
omg i’ve always wanted to work at a bookstore but like a sweet little one but now a days most of them are chapters indigo which is not my favourite kind of environment
I once worked at a comic book shop in Long Beach for about 6 months until it was time for me to get a real job. I just kept coming in and after a while I got cool with the GM and he told me someone was leaving and I said I’d take up some hours if he needed the help and boom I was hired. I accepted the gig cus I wanted to learn how to use illustrator and get any tips I could from artists. I learned so much and had a great time. That job helped bring my art to a new level and I’m still making money off it to this day, I’m forever grateful.
This is exactly what it's like working at a bookstore! I loved working at a bookstore. Definitely my to the job I've ever had. The only problem is what it was slow I would get bored because it's not like you can sit and read lol at least not at my bookstore
I swear, book shop employees are so good at selling books and making return customers. They just casually compliment everything you buy until your addicted and broke.
the amount of people in these comments who have read agggtm makes me so happy. i love this series so so much but no one i know has read them so i’ve finally found my people lol
I'd love to work at a small book shop or library one day. B&N is great sometimes, but it doesnt seem like the best place to work. I've been a bookworm all my life and the peaceful silence plus the smell of books sounds like total bliss.
I had a job working at indigo, I left because the staff where always at each others throats and they seem to get upset with me for not taking sides or talking trash about other coworkers Plus, they seemed to be apart of a big niche. All of the staff was lgbtq, and as a lesbian it actually made me kind of uncomfortable because my sexuality seemed to be the only thing they saw when they looked at me. It was a really odd atmosphere, I don’t even shop there anymore because working there for a short period of time completely shifted my perspective on that place. Luckily a new bookstore with a much more comfortable and cozy atmosphere opened up Downtown, they also have more books that I’m personally into which is awesome. The lady who owns it is so incredibly nice, and the staff seem really happy, whenever I walk I. There they’re all giggling about something and joking around with each other. I never realized how much I appreciate a genuinely happy staff as a customer until being apart of a really miserable team
I used to work in a library and the funniest part was how I got the job; I literally just walked in one day and started to chat with one of the librarian. I had just started high school so I asked them if they needed staff and she wrote my name and number down. Around four months later they called me up and asked me to come in for a trial day. I was hired within 15 minutes because the only real skill needed was to know the alphabet. I loved working there; we also had a bunch of local activity days (plays, concerts, children’s plays, internet workshops for non-tech savvy people etc.) where they would always ask us young staffers to help out for extra pay. It was seriously the best part-time job I’ve ever had; I was surrounded by books, paid well and there was absolutely no stress or pressure to live up to some quota or something along those lines.
Sometimes I forget that the job I worked for half a decade is one of the most stressful and mentally traumatizing thing you can do short of the military. Slowly unpacking that since ive left
I didn’t even know book stores still exist. It’s almost like you don’t even need them cuz books are online now and it’s so much easier cuz I can read everything anywhere on my phone and then just switch to another book when I’m done
used to hang out in a local indie bookstore in my home town and ended up making fast friends with the lady who owns it as well as her wife and kids lol. Id come in every day after school and sometimes id just read or do homework, and other times id help out by putting labels on things, cleaning, alphabetizing books. I was happy to do all of that for free because being in the store genuinely made me really happy, and I wanted to help bring that joy to other people too. eventually though, the owner offered me an internship, and I became her first ever intern! I still help out when I go home and have time, and now she even pays me full time wages when she needs me to work a shift. (the intern rate is a few dollars less lol)
I bet it would be nice working at a smaller bookstore business. I worked at a much larger company bookstore and it was not great. The pay was low, absolutely nothing was incentivized (for instance, selling memberships did not have any benefits whatsoever. The membership wasn't even worth it, so it felt like conning customers anyway), and they decided to make everyone a "jack of all trades" when the store wasn't doing well. This meant that everyone had to do everything regardless of their department. People receiving in the back had to do customer service, register, and shelving. This wouldn't be so bad normally, but there was no increase in wages for this decision at all. Basically everyone had "manager" responsibilities without the manager pay. We were also limited to under 30 hours a week so that the company did not have to pay benefits. The discount was nice, but 30% off books doesn't pay rent. Definitely the most toxic place I've worked at. But I'm sure many of these problems wouldn't pop up in a smaller business, and the job itself is interesting enough.
I worked at a bookshop that sold school books, one of about a dozen shops under the same company that also had a website and did click&collect, ie the order was shipped to your closest shop instead of your home. The warehouse was poorly managed so orders took ages and yet came in incomplete, and it was a small shop so when we got busy the place was impassable. I remember noting on at least one occasion that the line stretched down one of our two aisles, up the other, and out the door, up next to the window, for at least the length inside the shop if not more. Plus, we had to cover the books in the shop in front of and at the request of customers, which took So Long. It's kind of annoying that thats what i remember about it, because the job i was actually hired for was evenings and weekends, around my classes, was so much nicer. The shop was pretty quiet a lot of the time so aside from open, close and occasional tidying, i spent a lot of my shifts reading.
I worked at Barnes & Noble for 3 years. The greatest part was the coworkers and the passion you're allowed to have about the job. The worst part was the bad pay, limited hours, and lack of benefits. A great job for first-timers/part-timers/not-breadwinners. Due to the lack of higher management positions, very few people can make a lifetime career of it. Some of my coworkers were even authors themselves. Additionally, corporate has encroached on bookseller territory more by pushing employees to recommend certain books above others to reach daily quotas. Ironically, Good Girl's Guide was one such book. You're also typically categorized as an "expert" in a particular genre or section of the store. For a long time, I was the manga/TTRPG expert who hosted Adventurer's League in the store. When I transferred to a new store with manga fans as the predominant group of employees, I had to use my own money to become an expert on the history book section.
I didn’t even have to apply at my shop 😅 manager was like “you’re here a lot, want a job?”
That’s so cool!
at which company?
Sickk, I love smaller businesses
that’s what happened after I came in every Friday to a bubble tea shop for six years XD
The dream..
But at this point the dream is get accepted anywhere
working at a bookstore is literally my dream part time job 😭😭
Sameee just to talk about books all day like perfect!!!!
How old are you guys? Why not apply?
@@mirabensvik3767 i’m in highschool rn and old enough to apply for a job, but the only thing is that i don’t have any bookstores near me (i mean there is one in the process of being built next to my school but sadly it’s going to be finished by around fall 2024, and by then i’ll be busy with act/sat and college stuff) :(
Same 😢
@@hannahongmaybe you could be a volunteer or even just talk to the hiring ppl and see if they’ll let you work whenever possible
Out of all the jobs I've had my entire life, working at a bookstore was my favorite. It was actually my dream when I was younger to have my own bookstore.
What's stopping you? Go for it!
Looks like 4k people think you should go for it
I dream about being a warrior-scholar defending a massive library at the end of the world. I'm not being cute or making that up. It's literally what would keep me going, give me a purpose if it all goes to pot.
Never to late for dreams.
Bookstores are money pits maybe sell E Books and something else.
If money isn't a problem I'd work as a book store owner 😭
Do you mean you'd work as a book store employee? Business owners typically make decent money and it also requires expertise I doubt you have.
@@QTpatootie95 I think the point is you usually have to have money to start a store or buy one
It's not really that hard to start a business, but it's hard to have the money to rend a place, buy the books you'll actually sell etc etc @@QTpatootie95
Ikr😂😂😂
@@QTpatootie95 owners don’t really need expertise. They need money. Most of the work is done by the staff they hire.
Too true! -someone who uses to work at indigo in Vancouver
Oh hell yeah! The one at Metrotown, or downtown?
i wanna work at the downtown one so bad 😔
@@queenie691 park royal mainly
a good girls guide to murder is literally so good
Ohh what’s it about….
It’s about a girl trying too solve a murder that happened a couple years ago in her home town! I love it sm much because the plot twists r very unpredictable but not so out there that the make no sense and it sound like the author just wanted too trick u lol it also has a little bit of a cute romance (nothing spicy) and the characters r rlly lovable!
@@Jackie76493The book is about a murder that happened 5 years ago when Andie Bell was murdered and her boyfriend, Sal Singh, was acused of killing her and then killed himself (or thats atleast what people in the town believe) before he got questioned. But Pippa whos 17 years old decides to do a project about the case and figure out what really happened because she believes the killer is still out there. During her journey she meets many people who lie and dont fully say the truth about what happened that night she even gets a death threat telling her to stop the investigation.
I really recommend reading it, im still in the process of reading but its a very good murder mystery book and has lots of twists. Hope this helps!
Although I loved the first one, it took me a month to actually get past the first few chapters of the second to get invested in it again and it's been a solid YEAR and I'm JUST getting past chapter 5 of the 3rd one. For some reason, I just can't get into the 2nd and 3rd like I could the 1st.
Yesss and there is going to be a show
I'm sorry, it's a great video but can I just say... I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THAT BOOK YOU'RE HOLDING LIKE OMG IT WAS AWESOME! I'M ALMOST DONE WITH THE WHOLE SERIES
YES!!!!! It’s SOOOOOOO good!! I just finned the 1st book last week and I am starting the 2nd one!
hoho, ur hired
@@DrTaylorSwift Omg yes!!!!
I just started reading the series so far it ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
@@Hallow_Night RIGHT
I used to work at a very large retail brand bookstore and they only paid $11 an hour. I took a break from working with them for a contract job. When I came back, I asked for a set number of guaranteed hours or potentially an increase in pay. Since in the time I had been gone I had been diagnosed with epilepsy. They could not guarantee me this, but instead said happily “but our employee discount has gone up to 50%!” Like. That’s not gonna pay my bills or keep me medicated and out of the ER 😞
Yeah I was gonna say 😅 as much fun as it was working with books and amazing coworkers…15.75???? No guaranteed hours??In this economy???? No sis 😂
A 50% discount sounds amazing but unfortunately you can't pay the bills with that. But for a person who just wants to fund their book addiction this would be a dream come true.
I know the exact retail one- I had to work a second job for a while because of that pay and ended up dropping the job at the bookstore. Funny enough tho I accidentally left before the 50% increase. But I did not regret the decision in the slightest!!!
The only thing you could do with those benefits is use the discounts to buy books to resell online but that’s nuts
Yeahhh, even at the end of my 3 and a half year stint at the chain that's in all 50 states I was still only making minimum wage... Not sustainable at all
The best part is being an anime fan and a worker knows what they're talking about when you're looking for a good manga recommendation for a new series in a specific genre.
Our local store has 1 worker that's specialized in comics and manga and just as big a fan as many of us customers.
One of the cashiers at the Barnes and noble with the biggest manga section recognized my kids Giorno Jojo jacket right off the bat. She’s our favorite. They even had the Part 5 vinyl!
I really appreciate that there’s no twist, nothing over-dramatic. Just wholesome bookstore chat.
Her hair look great.
Hey did anyone notice the book she's holding!!!
I absolutely love that book -" a good girl's guide to murder"
Has anyone else read it too??
YESSS I LIVE ABD BREATHE THUS BOOK, RAVI IS UNDERRATED AND THE ENTIRE SERIES BROKE ME😭
@@ketterdam_crowravi doesn’t get as much appreciation as he deserves and omg his relationship with pip is so cute😭 the ending of the last book made me cry
My mom worked at a Barnes & Noble back when I was around 5-8, and she absolutely loved it (especially the employee discount which she used a lot, partially to get my dad most of his D&D books)
She doesn’t work at Barnes & Noble anymore bc we move a lot due to military, and there isn’t one in our area that we can easily drive to
That is such a power couple move.
I work full time at a bookstore and this is pretty accurate 😂 I absolutely LOVE my job, it still feels like a dream come true!
I love agggtm SUCH a good book
Would definitely recommend
starting the second book today!
my fave job ever was an indie bookstore and my least fave was a chain bookstore. bookshop job satisfaction really REALLY depends on management AND location (rich customers were the worst due to maaaany diff factors)
Agreed. My least favorite job so far was at a larger company bookstore
That $15.50 for 10-15 hours a week was worrying me until I found out that this was a teenager's work schedule.
It’s fr a must read I’m on the 3rd book rn and it’s literally my fav on the entire world lol 10/10 would recommend
I thought working at a large indie bookstore was the dream…it was the opposite of that. Full time, minimum wage, you would get fired if you got caught reading or even leaning against the counter (even if the store was empty), no accommodation for most disabled shoppers (owners scoffed at me for learning customer service ASL because “deaf people don’t read”), chasing out people who were using book nooks to do really inappropriate stuff, and HR handled me asking for help with a coworker who was sexually harassing me by making it common knowledge amongst the staff. Meeting the occasional celebrity (it was in a popular ski town in Vermont) was the only benefit. 😬🤷🏻♀️
That sounds really bad, I never thought those experiences would be possible in a bookstore. Also, I've never met another disabled person who doesn't like to read, it's a great low energy hobby.
Damn that sounds like it would be such a sweet gig - a bookstore by a swanky ski resort??? - but instead employers find a way to fuck even that up…ridiculous 🙄
sounds like they needed to replace the entirety of their upper management. pieces of shit
theres a good bookstore out there for you.
bernie sanders 😳
I volunteer at a used bookstore in my library and it’s pretty much the same. You get first access to books that come in before they get shelved, it’s a pretty sweet gig
Used to work for this company, was a manager in Quebec. I still miss it (not the company who were terrible) but the staff, books and customers I do miss.
Et bien, un quebecois! Salut bien 😄 hope the job you have now is much better.
THAT BOOK “A GOOD GIRLS GUIDE TO MURDUR” IS SO GOODDDDDD
I was just about to comment this
I was so hyped to figure out there’s a bookstore in my town, now I know where I’m working 😋
As a ex fast food restaurant worker this sounds like heaven. Cleaning the bathrooms no biggy and understaffed is the managers problem not mine.
oh wild, i wasn't expecting this to be about indigo, that's crazy! i used to love shopping at chapters indigo stores, but just a few days ago they closed one of the very few unionized locations, and the way the workers there were treated was awful :/ the company said something about it being because the location wasn't making enough money, but it was very obviously union-busting
15.50 per hour is such a good pay . I used to work as a lifeguard for 10.81 per hour
Not really😅 in my country €12.10 is the minimum wage… so yea 15.50 isn’t that good
15.50 is minimum wage in ontario and the equivalent of 11.50 american, it's shit pay
thats less than minimum wage in dc
@@rachael501 the minimum wage is actually 16.55 now, but yeah, it was 15.50 when this video was posted, so not that good of a pay lmao
that's what i was gonna say. i doubt any bookstore in my state pays more than $10. $15 is the highest retail wage you'll find here 😂
the book in her hand is one of the most exciting & intriguing books i’ve read so far!
It is such an amazing part time job! I am woking part time at books a million where I live while taking 2 summer classes! I recommend it!
so true! i work at *said bookstore* currently and all that you said in this video is so true
Love that little meta joke “the hardest part was having to act out selling a book to a customer”, because that’s exactly what she’s doing.
OMG AGGGTM IS LITERALLY THE BEST SERIES EVER
Low stress and group interview in the same sentence?
Lol that's what I was thinking. Just being in a group makes me stressed
I SEE AGGGTM😍😍 ITS A MUST READ SERIES
Can somebody kindly explain what the purpose of this short was please? Felt more about why or applying to work in a bookstore?
AGGGTM book in her hand omg! Love the whole series
Girl I worked in a bookshop for 3 years for €3.50 an hour this makes me so jealous but if you like books, go for it! Working with books was the best part of my day :)
Thanks dear StreetCents this is soooo awesome, I really wanna work in my fave comicstore in my Summer Holidays that would be so incredible! Your Humor is so relatable, especially the facial expressions and the „nasty“ XD
I worked at Chapters and something about the concrete floors left me at 22 with knee pain that lasted for a few months after I quit. The pay was criminal and there were no benefits for P/T workers and they manipulated the schedule to ensure you were never, ever anywhere near a full P/T schedule. I love books but it was wildly overrated.
They have PT benefits now fwiw
I'm not too big of a book person, but I will admit that working in a bookstore sounds pretty nice :)
Seventeen1?! Girl, you look like you’re 23 already having life figured out!
Also as a person who doesn’t read books, I loved the skit. Might make something similar, but as other places instead of book stores.. for myself.
bro this is the girl in my english essay worksheet
oh gosh i missed working for an old bookstore owned by this kind uncle from my neighbourhood. i remembered going there a lot throughout my childhood cause i love all of his collections of old fictional books, and one day he just came up to me, talking about his favourite book at that moment and asking me if i was ever interested in working there while i was on my break. of course, the pay was bearable for a student like me at that time, just gaining myself some allowance but the vibe and calm atmosphere of the bookstore in the middle of a small neighborhood was the thing that made me fell in love with it (plus all of the books that i could read for free). it's a shame now the old bookstore's closed cause the uncle had moved to another state, living with his son's family. the uncle even gifted me a harddrive before he moved, advising me to work hard for my dream and never losing myself amidst all the battle. i really wish i'll get another chance to meet the uncle again, proudly showing to him how much i've grown and achieved in life.
Was expecting a twist but was pure wholesomeness. Very sweet
I worked in a bookstore for eight years and can confirm. Holidays were particularly stressful, but I have a lot of great memories from that job
I loved watching Street Cents as a kid and teen back in the day on CBC, so happy to see it's back
I love agggtm so much!
The money and doing multiple peoples jobs was what got me. Besides that it literally was a dream ❤
This was exactly the video I needed today thank you
I worked at a small bookstore in my hometown and it was definitely one of my favorite jobs. I’d go back to it as a part time thing if I still lived in the town!
I was at my local library so often that eventually I just started helping other people look for books. I got a job at the library in the next suburb over and had so much fun working there.
I feel like the odd one out because my bookstore job was the worst one I’ve ever had ahaha
Is that ‘ a good girl’s guide to murder’ ?!?? Dude!! That’s my favourite book!!
Flashing back to when i worked for barnes and noble and they paid me $9.75 an hour for a FULL TIME position 😂
working at a bookstore seems awesome. just working anywhere relaxing, not stressful and not hostile for once seems awesome...
I work in a used book store. Absolutely amazing 🤩
I worked at a supermarket as a part time job, but had applied to some book stores as well and got nervous about quitting too early on, but my mother was like: no, if you get a job at a book store you’re immediately switching to that. Just because I told you you need a job, it doesn’t mean you have to have a job you don’t like.
And I don’t think I’ll ever forget that
(I didn’t get the book store jobs and the supermarket job was fine, but if I need another part time job I’ll definitely be looking out for a bookstore job)
I just read as good as dead and that series is so good!
omg i’ve always wanted to work at a bookstore but like a sweet little one but now a days most of them are chapters indigo which is not my favourite kind of environment
My first ever "job" was working for my high school library. It was quite a fun and relaxing job. The best part was the free printing.
I was so excited when you said you work in an indigo in Ontario because that’s pretty much my dream job and I was sure that you were in the US.
I once worked at a comic book shop in Long Beach for about 6 months until it was time for me to get a real job. I just kept coming in and after a while I got cool with the GM and he told me someone was leaving and I said I’d take up some hours if he needed the help and boom I was hired. I accepted the gig cus I wanted to learn how to use illustrator and get any tips I could from artists. I learned so much and had a great time. That job helped bring my art to a new level and I’m still making money off it to this day, I’m forever grateful.
shows up on my youtube home page right after the scarborough store was closed because of unionbusting
Reminds me of my time working at Rogers Video store. But we had cleaners for the washrooms.
This is exactly what it's like working at a bookstore! I loved working at a bookstore. Definitely my to the job I've ever had. The only problem is what it was slow I would get bored because it's not like you can sit and read lol at least not at my bookstore
I read the book she had in her hand the “must read” book it’s so good
Growing up I always wanted to work at Indigo. Glad you enjoy parts of the job. Especially when your passionate about books and the community 👍🏻
I used to know a guy who managed a bookstore for years. When it went under, I saw him as a manager at Big Lots. It made me really depressed.
I swear, book shop employees are so good at selling books and making return customers. They just casually compliment everything you buy until your addicted and broke.
I clicked because BRO I love your style, holy shit you are so pretty, then realized how amazing it would be to ACTUALLY work at a bookstore.
i like how you kept the interview anonymous by acting it out yourself. it helps the answers be more honest i believe.
Bookstore clerks are my favorite people to talk to at the mall!
the amount of people in these comments who have read agggtm makes me so happy. i love this series so so much but no one i know has read them so i’ve finally found my people lol
I love what they throw away too 🙌
17?? Dang, girl! Your makeup is GOOD. I would've guessed 22-24!
I'd love to work at a small book shop or library one day. B&N is great sometimes, but it doesnt seem like the best place to work. I've been a bookworm all my life and the peaceful silence plus the smell of books sounds like total bliss.
AGGGTM I love the book ur holding as the customer its sooo good❤
I had a job working at indigo, I left because the staff where always at each others throats and they seem to get upset with me for not taking sides or talking trash about other coworkers
Plus, they seemed to be apart of a big niche. All of the staff was lgbtq, and as a lesbian it actually made me kind of uncomfortable because my sexuality seemed to be the only thing they saw when they looked at me. It was a really odd atmosphere, I don’t even shop there anymore because working there for a short period of time completely shifted my perspective on that place. Luckily a new bookstore with a much more comfortable and cozy atmosphere opened up Downtown, they also have more books that I’m personally into which is awesome. The lady who owns it is so incredibly nice, and the staff seem really happy, whenever I walk I. There they’re all giggling about something and joking around with each other. I never realized how much I appreciate a genuinely happy staff as a customer until being apart of a really miserable team
I also work at a small local bookstore and I love it!
That seems like such a chill job ngl
It’s so fun to see this because I work in a bookstore.
I JUST FINISHED GOOD GIRLS GUIDE TO MURDER! That ending was such a plot twist!
I used to work in a library and the funniest part was how I got the job; I literally just walked in one day and started to chat with one of the librarian. I had just started high school so I asked them if they needed staff and she wrote my name and number down. Around four months later they called me up and asked me to come in for a trial day. I was hired within 15 minutes because the only real skill needed was to know the alphabet.
I loved working there; we also had a bunch of local activity days (plays, concerts, children’s plays, internet workshops for non-tech savvy people etc.) where they would always ask us young staffers to help out for extra pay. It was seriously the best part-time job I’ve ever had; I was surrounded by books, paid well and there was absolutely no stress or pressure to live up to some quota or something along those lines.
Im literally reading agggtm right now!!
I’M APPLYING TO INDIGO BOOKS IN ONTARIO THIS WAS SO ME AND SO HELPFUL THANK YOU
Half a year ago I got a job at my favourite bookstore and there hasn’t been a day I’ve regretted that decision 👌🏼😇
holy moly mind-reading recommendation? this is so helpful!
This is so chill... I wish I had this experience lookin for jobs growing up! Please be nice to young people looking for work ;~;
My grandfather was the president of a book publishing company, very strong reading culture in my family.
Sometimes I forget that the job I worked for half a decade is one of the most stressful and mentally traumatizing thing you can do short of the military.
Slowly unpacking that since ive left
I was just checking out the 'a good girls guide to murder' in her hands 😂
I didn’t even know book stores still exist. It’s almost like you don’t even need them cuz books are online now and it’s so much easier cuz I can read everything anywhere on my phone and then just switch to another book when I’m done
I didn’t have this experience but glad some people do
used to hang out in a local indie bookstore in my home town and ended up making fast friends with the lady who owns it as well as her wife and kids lol. Id come in every day after school and sometimes id just read or do homework, and other times id help out by putting labels on things, cleaning, alphabetizing books. I was happy to do all of that for free because being in the store genuinely made me really happy, and I wanted to help bring that joy to other people too. eventually though, the owner offered me an internship, and I became her first ever intern! I still help out when I go home and have time, and now she even pays me full time wages when she needs me to work a shift. (the intern rate is a few dollars less lol)
I bet it would be nice working at a smaller bookstore business. I worked at a much larger company bookstore and it was not great. The pay was low, absolutely nothing was incentivized (for instance, selling memberships did not have any benefits whatsoever. The membership wasn't even worth it, so it felt like conning customers anyway), and they decided to make everyone a "jack of all trades" when the store wasn't doing well. This meant that everyone had to do everything regardless of their department. People receiving in the back had to do customer service, register, and shelving. This wouldn't be so bad normally, but there was no increase in wages for this decision at all. Basically everyone had "manager" responsibilities without the manager pay. We were also limited to under 30 hours a week so that the company did not have to pay benefits. The discount was nice, but 30% off books doesn't pay rent. Definitely the most toxic place I've worked at. But I'm sure many of these problems wouldn't pop up in a smaller business, and the job itself is interesting enough.
15 hours 15.50 an hour 👀 wow I wish
15.50 Canadian. That's 11.45 USD.
I used to work in a second hand bookshop and it was genuinely was a dream job 😍
I worked at a bookshop that sold school books, one of about a dozen shops under the same company that also had a website and did click&collect, ie the order was shipped to your closest shop instead of your home. The warehouse was poorly managed so orders took ages and yet came in incomplete, and it was a small shop so when we got busy the place was impassable. I remember noting on at least one occasion that the line stretched down one of our two aisles, up the other, and out the door, up next to the window, for at least the length inside the shop if not more. Plus, we had to cover the books in the shop in front of and at the request of customers, which took So Long. It's kind of annoying that thats what i remember about it, because the job i was actually hired for was evenings and weekends, around my classes, was so much nicer. The shop was pretty quiet a lot of the time so aside from open, close and occasional tidying, i spent a lot of my shifts reading.
BTW .. Love your hair ❤
I worked at Barnes & Noble for 3 years. The greatest part was the coworkers and the passion you're allowed to have about the job. The worst part was the bad pay, limited hours, and lack of benefits. A great job for first-timers/part-timers/not-breadwinners. Due to the lack of higher management positions, very few people can make a lifetime career of it. Some of my coworkers were even authors themselves. Additionally, corporate has encroached on bookseller territory more by pushing employees to recommend certain books above others to reach daily quotas. Ironically, Good Girl's Guide was one such book. You're also typically categorized as an "expert" in a particular genre or section of the store. For a long time, I was the manga/TTRPG expert who hosted Adventurer's League in the store. When I transferred to a new store with manga fans as the predominant group of employees, I had to use my own money to become an expert on the history book section.
Hahah when I heard 15.50 I knew it was probably Ontario! Nice :D