I just quit the man whore business as it was just to busy, now i am a maintenance man.

TheGodfather wrote:I just quit the man whore business as it was just to busy, now i am a maintenance man.

I wonder if Bradley R. Weissenberger would go see a band called "The Man Whore Business."

What kind of business is that, exactly? Male Prostitution?

Anyway, if you do a search, there's already a lengthy thread on this.


Let's see. . . if you just do a search for "librarian," yup, here it is.

I'm the manager of a college textbook store. Yes. I am the one responsible for your outrageous book prices.

i just asked this same question in the electrical audio myspace group.


because, i'm unemployed and don't know what the fuck i want to do with my life.

so tell me what to do, while you're at it.

i've got a ba in communications/english.

Tom wrote:I'm the manager of a college textbook store. Yes. I am the one responsible for your outrageous book prices.

Pretty highfalutin work there Tom, how does it compare to, say, the Man Whore Business?

slowriot wrote:because, i'm unemployed and don't know what the fuck i want to do with my life.

so tell me what to do, while you're at it.

i've got a ba in communications/english.

Are you a man?

I am an instructor in philosophy and doctoral candidate, otherwise known as infinite student.

Andrew L. wrote:

Tom wrote:I'm the manager of a college textbook store. Yes. I am the one responsible for your outrageous book prices.

Pretty highfalutin work there Tom, how does it compare to, say, the Man Whore Business?

On the whole I like it quite a bit. I'm not a big fan of the 'manager' aspects of it. Dealing with employees and payroll. Not that I work with bad people, I just feel weird asking people to do things.

But the actual textbook stuff is fun. I can't really think of another industry that it's similar to. About 90% of our annual sales comes from 4 weeks.
You have 3 months or so to set up all your cards and get everything in on time and then you have 4 days to basically just watch to see if what you did worked.
It's a weird combination of wholesale ordering\selling\purchasing that is pretty nuanced and requires more creativity and attention than your average run of the mill store.
Our customers are also our suppliers. And our wholesalers are also our customers. Its a constant flow of books flying all over the country and back again at key moments. at any given time you have 10 stores fighting over one used copy of a book.

er. sorry.

Review grant proposals for a foundation; edit financial research; etc., etc.

Tom wrote:er. sorry.

Not at all! This is interesting to me.