If you're looking to support yourself don't work at dollar general. I had years of customer service experience from food service, and showed initiative when I started working there. I worked there for a week, they told me they were looking for a keyholder position so I put in an app for that. They told me I was a shoe in because I was a hard worker. I thought things were going pretty good. Then they hired a completely new person, and gave her the keyholders position. She got hired at a higher wage than me. I was a bit disappointed but I kept working there. For the next 8 months or so I worked hard, putting away more stock than anyone else, being helpful and kind to every customer, and being what I assumed was a model employee. The keyholder that they hired over me, farted in front of customers, carried a Bluetooth speaker around with her listening to music, went out for cigarettes twice as much as anyone else and was rude to customers on several occasions. I pulled my back lifting bags of dogfood and when I messaged the manager she told me to keep working instead of going home because she didn't have anyone to replace me for the rest of the shift. Then after about a year they decided to give me a shot for a promotion. All I had to do was ride an hour with the assistant manager in a car to drive to another store that was short-staffed. I agreed and then decided it wasn't worth it. There goes the possibility of a wage because I didnt feel like being uncomfortable with some strange woman in a car for two hours a day. Fast-forward another two months and this is the third time a new manager was hired. (They have terrible manager retention because they work them like slaves.) Except for this time the manager they hired was two years younger than I am, and was a complete smartass, throwing it in my face and making jokes about how I was much older than him. And he was my boss. When covid came around I couldn't work in public because someone in my family is immunocompromised. So when I decided that $7.25/hr wasn't enough to risk my health or the health of my family, I called in and quit on the spot 10 minutes before my shift. Dollar general is not a good company to work for.