Having been given my notice for waterstone's (the whole store not just me being smelly I assure you) I was thinking what people think of booksellers. Dinner parties range from people claiming the job is "sexy" (a mate of mine often comes to visit me , but then confessed its something about women with books!) to arragont (numerous tales of being sneered at,alebit often from pompous old men who mistake their education for authority of intellect, and should frankly shift stock once in a while)
Do Booksellers have a strange position in the world still.some countries still treat it with presteige like tailoring, others its another form of simian till-mokey. what do you reckon?
2007-04-19 01:56:05 · 6 answers · asked by comicbookrob 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I want to be a bookseller, but I must finish university first!
2007-04-19 02:18:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that like any job it has preconceptions of the kind of person that does it. Somebody who works as a bookseller full time (not really part time so much) to my mind would obviously enjoy reading (just as somebody working in a record shop likes music, or a sports shop likes, well, sport). Some people would then further apply their opinions of more literate people onto a bookseller, only usually writ large. I think that there are examples of people who will always mistreat any kind of customer service worker, as well as people working in these industries who have superiority complexes. I think in this culture it is unlikely anybody in any profession like that would get much respect from the greater public, because the greater public on the whole are a bunch of rude, arrogant, grasping little Fagans.
2007-04-19 02:14:27 · answer #2 · answered by Bultimus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanks for the laughs! I was smiling waaaay before "simian till-monkey."
I work in a book repository right now...but...I'd love to, when I'm say, 60-something, run a small book and gift shop. I don't picture myself as that guy or like Willow on Buffy the Vampire Slayer though. I'm just another person who likes being around books. A "simiam till monkey," I guess.
2007-04-19 02:06:08 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you would possibly want to be 16, and no it isn't relaxing. per chance in some shops it truly is effective, despite the indisputable fact that it truly is retail so like all different human being said you in basic terms isn't interpreting. In my save there is no longer adequate human beings to get something carried out so that you paintings your self to lack of life attempting to easily wait on purchasers. you even ought to sparkling bogs meaning cleansing up poop and different nasty issues off the walls, flooring and sinks. putting up with offended recommend purchasers who yell and curse at you on a on a daily basis foundation because there is no longer adequate human beings to attend on them. trust me, be a baby a lengthy time period longer then bypass to school and get a superb interest.
2016-10-18 02:31:04 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to be one and I want to be one again...
2007-04-19 02:14:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I rather be a baller a shot caller- halla halla halla halla halla halla halla halla halla...................
2007-04-19 02:08:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋