Pros
Great place to be on my own in peace. Nice small store and it's easy to run.
Cons
I showed an interest in managing the store like I wanted to to. It would have been a perfect fit. I did everything I could to the best job possible because I wanted a good reference from the manager. Things were going great so far until manager sold the store to different business owners. I did the best I could with these new business owners, but they reduced my hours without telling me why. I expressed interest in getting more hours. Next thing I know I was let go because "this wasn't what I was looking for." This completely sabotaged my goal of getting a good reference in pursuing my career in data science. My former manager insulted my self-worth without any merit for it when he said "yeah well he's not the manager..." I'm not stupid I know exactly what it meant and it wasn't received well. I was being perfectly honest and transparent to my former manager, but some managers punish people for telling the truth. I don't take lightly to people who punish the truth when I genuinely made every effort to do as best I can. This was just a convenience store and so the job was super easy. It goes to show that it's the people you work for that make all the difference in a job you do regardless of it's difficulty and not the job itself. Be careful who you work for particularly with people who place superficial judgements on you to the point where your genuine efforts are sabotaged.