38 - Buy and Sell Used Games Or Get Out

It shouldn’t be a surprise that some of the members of The Digital Bench worked at a very prominent used videogame retailer. You know which one - the one where you can buy and sell used games.

A lot of times when people reminisce about the past, at some point they’ll usually say “I had some of the best times of my life in that place.” I can confidently say that this wasn’t true here. You’ll learn a lot of skills that you’ll hopefully be able to leverage into a career elsewhere but the end goal should never be to stay. Still, it’s worth revisiting, if only to remind yourself that somehow made it out.

True story: due to a lack of payroll, I ended up working close to a 24 hour shift going from the opening shift of Christmas Eve until early Christmas morning because the store looked like a disaster, we didn’t have the staffing to recover, and there was an after-Christmas marketing set that needed to go up. Pretty sure that’s the year that broke me.

Joe sat in while Justin and I decided to share our experiences and remind ourselves of the not-so-great times.