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I managed/was chef at a ramen bar in 2017 - I quit when my mom was diagnosed with cancer. The job was so stressful, mostly just because of the owner's dopey decisions.

I think 2018 was my last food industry job; I dishwashed at a remote fishing lodge on the Haida Gwaii islands. While it was beautiful and cool, it was also exhausting. Work from 7/8am-3pm, sleep from 3:30-6pm, eat dinner, and then work from 6:30pm-10 or 11. 6 days a week. Head chef had a rule that you worked an extra hour on your day off if you were 5 minutes late for a shift.

I still did some 'customer service' jobs after that, as I'd qualify anything where you're serving the general public. I worked in an optometry office from 2018-2020, starting out as a receptionist basically, so tons of the usual nonsense with customers. Not as bad as pharmacies though. To be fair, I liked it a lot more when I was mostly doing the pre-exams, and the phone/customer stuff wasn't too bad. It was when I started dispensing glasses as an optician that you got a bit more in the weeds with indecisive customers.

Then 2022/2023 was working as a home repair tech for Telus (largest ISP in Canada). The odd customer could be annoying, but my main bone of contention was with management. The job could've been chill if it weren't for them. I enjoyed helping customers, but I refused to try to upsell crap to them. Customers loved me while a single dolt in management was always riding my ass to sell people cellphone plans that were worse than my own.

I deal with 'clients' now so they can occasionally be a bit trying, but it's a lot less trivial than retail/service.