Downsides of Working at a Bookstore

It must be a delight for any bibliophile to be surrounded by books every hour of every single day, but there are certainly drawbacks to working in a bookstore and any book lover would know exactly what they are.

Steph Coelho sums it up with five points in which she tries to convince one why they shouldn't work at a bookstore. Half-jokingly, she enumerates these reasons based on her own experiences of working at a bookstore. Here's one of them:

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You’ll spend your days wondering how in the world you’re going to be able to read all those books. You look at the tall shelves surrounding you and quickly realize that the truth is you’ll never read all the books, and you panic and fall into a hole of existential dread.

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