My Job

I've had a total of three jobs since I was 18 and my parents forced me to join the working force, seeing as I was still living at home and they were growing weary of footing all my bills. Finding a job in Prescott, AZ was easier said then done. I applied everywhere: Victoria's Secret, Fry's, Panda Express, many, MANY more. Cutting to the chase I was hired to work at Pier 1 Imports, and after working there for 9 months, I was promoted to a manager. I couldn't have asked for a better first job. I loved all my co-workers, I loved getting my discount on home-goods, I loved it all. However just before my two year anniversary, I started to get THE ITCH. I was bored. Same thing over and over again, dull days, busy weekends, and wealthy housewives out spending their husbands money. So what did I decide to do? Why go work at Starbucks! People never complain at a coffee shop, right? Right?? Wrong. Now being a barista was fun, I'm not going to lie and say I hated it. There were many perks, the best of course being free coffee. Starbucks was also a very generous company, I was making good money, tips were nice for the extra pocket ~shopping~ change, but the cons far outweighed the pros. I never knew that people could be so picky about coffee. My experience before barista life was just ordering straight off the menu.  No fancy substitutions, unless you count soy as fancy, but I mean nothing compared to the Venti 12 pump Chai, Soy, No water, Extra Foam Chai Tea Latte, that evidently only I could make correctly, while to be honest, I barely paid attention to what I was doing half (ok more like 3/4's) of the time... Needless to say when the opportunity arose for me to ditch my green apron, I was more than happy to take it. Which bring us too...

BUFFALO EXCHANGE:

My current, and by far most interesting job. 

Pros to My Latest Job:

1. I can wear whatever I want.

2. See number 1 

3. I love my co-workers

4. It's inspired me to pursue a job as a professional buyer

5. CLOTHES 

Before I moved to Tucson I had maybe been to Buffalo Exchange 4 times, and I had only found out about the company about 1.5 years ago. I mean, I remember in high school my best friend Chelsea would always talk about it, but I was never really sure what Buffalo actually was.  When I moved down here to The Dirty-T I saw that the local Buffalo was hiring, which is cool seeing as it's actually the first Buffalo EVER, I applied not thinking much was to come from it. After the second interview, I knew the cat was in the bag. I've always been better at retail than food industry. There more interaction with people, and as anyone who knows me would attest to, I am a people person. So that's my job. I'm a buyer at Buffalo. There's a lot more to this job than I ever expected, a lot of outside research, but hey any excuse to go shopping and I'm in.