1. Your heart breaks every time someone messes up your perfect pyramid.
2. Even when you're not at work, you'll find yourself tidying books into pyramids.
3. When you say a book's not in stock, what you actually mean is Phoenix is telling you there's one, but you know you'll never find it.
4. You feel like Phoenix, and other such book inventory systems, may have been put on this earth to troll you.
5. You've got to be creative about finding ways to encourage people to be literary.
6. You probably feel like your pun-writing skills are wasted, tbh.
7. You've got to get your bookish kicks where you can.
8. Because nine out of ten transactions look like this...
9. Ridiculously vague customer requests drive you crackers.
"I'm looking for the non-fiction section." #booksellerproblems
10. Often they're BEYOND vague.
"Can you help me find a book? I don't know the author or title, but it's a paperback with a blue cover..." #booksellerproblems
11. Half the time, you'll even know what they're talking about, but you'll pretend you don't to prove a point.
12. Nobody seems to understand how the book market actually works.
"Is the new James Patterson that came out today available in paperback yet?" #BooksellerProblems
Not like it's an industry that's been going for centuries or anything.
13. You're judging everyone who buys a Dan Brown book.
14. Not that you're above reading a trashy book on the sly during your shift.
15. Celebrity signings can be terrifying.
16. You've got far more to offer the world than stickering 3-for-2s.
17. It's easy to feel like you're being swallowed up by a big corporate machine.
18. But you love it really.
19. Because there's nothing quite like the feeling of recommending a good book to someone and finding out that they really enjoyed it.
20. And getting to help kids find books that they'll love for the rest of their lives is pretty great too.
22. You just cannot beat a good bookshop and you love getting paid to spend all day in one.
