Just thought you all would appreciate what my manager said to me today. And to pre-empt: Overall I'm happy with where I work, mostly. If I'm stuck in retail, there's nowhere else I'd rather be. But the peak of the dung heap is still the dung heap, y'know? Believe me, I'm trying to shift industries. All I need is for one of these jobs to take the ubiquitous “2-5 years experience” requirement less seriously, and oh, I don't know, speaking to me would be a nice start. Then we'd be getting somewhere.
ETA: Ideally, I wouldn't be working a desk job either. My dream 'job' is to be an event/tournament organizer. I'm working towards it but it's a long ways from paying the bills. Someday.