‘I thought I was destined for great things. Turns out, I was meant to sell blue jeans.’
Dana Goldstein had dreams of being a foreign correspondent, covering the news from a far off land. When she graduated from journalism school into a recession, her visions of globetrotting were replaced by the reality of needing to pay her bills and eat.
Working in retail was meant to be a temporary measure, a stop-gap on the road to her future as a journalist. Ten years later, she had found herself accidentally well into a career, lured by the steady and reliable paycheck.
But she was a crap manager, at least from the corporate view. Dana put employees first, took risks with merchandising that did not always play by the rules, and opened her mouth to call out the stupidity that sometimes trickled down from head office.
Over the course of a decade, she witnessed fights among customers, stopped thieving employees, and blew the whistle on managers having sex on company time. Join her on the journey as she explores the best and worst of humanity, viewed from the sales racks and the sales floor.
Table of Content
Chapter 1 Doing Time
Chapter 2 It’s in the Blood
Chapter 3 You Never Forget Your First
Chapter 4 Taking Me to the Cleaners
Chapter 5 Rich and Famous and Chronically Late
Chapter 6 The 50-Million-Dollar Woman
Chapter 7 Meeting a Unicorn
Chapter 8 Rah, Rah, Go Rah Yourself
Chapter 9 Dreaming Big and Budgeting Small
Chapter 10 The Gorilla in the Bookstore
Chapter 11 Fight Club 2000
Chapter 12 Sorry, Who are You?
Chapter 13 Never Pay Retail Again
Chapter 14 The Heiress
Chapter 15 The Pit of Retail Hell
Chapter 16 Liquid Lunch
Chapter 17 Girl, Out of Body
Chapter 18 Telling a Story, Selling a Garlic Press
Chapter 19 The Designers
Chapter 20 Aisle Shopping
Chapter 21 The Final Climb
Chapter 22 Release Without Recidivism
Chapter 23 Returns
Chapter 24 Receipts from a Pandemic
Chapter 25 This Shit Really Happens
About the author
Dana Goldstein is the author of two other memoirs. Her first, The Girl in the Gold Bikini offers an examination of her journey through food and family. She has been known to cry over a sandwich offered to her after a harrowing event in Rome.Her second memoir, Murder on My Mind, is a candid look at Dana’s experience with perimenopause through to post-menopause. Within the pages, she discusses everything from murderous rages to the death of her libido.She is also the author of two middle grade novels, and hosts a podcast, What Were You Thinking.Dana lives in and writes from her home in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.Find out more by visiting danagoldstein.ca
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