Best Buy Career Opportunities?

What type of careers are offered at Best Buy, and how ancient do you have to be?

Answer by The Eagle Keeper
I hear they really suck to work for. Lots of hype, small respect. Join the military.

Answer by smartestmanintheroom
I take upon yourself you mean at the retail stores and not at corporate headquarters. Look on Bestbuy.com. I am sure they have already done their holiday hiring, so it is going to be tough.

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This past weekend, I took time to indulge in a side leisure activity that I haven’t had much time for lately: ahead of schedule audio recordings. The occasion was a miserable one. Fine Groove Records, one of the finest and last independent music shops, is closing its doors after 26 being of peddling new and used music in Northfield, MN. I collared a friend who also collects 78rpm records and we spent the afternoon rifling through the shop’s hundreds of shellac disks and LPs, searching for overlooked gems. (For me, my gems were a previously unknown to me Raymond Scott recording, an ahead of schedule Eartha Kitt record, a promotional double-disk interview with Laurie Anderson never unrestricted to the public, and the elusive second volume of Henry Mancini’s music from "Peter Gunn" in mint condition. My friend hit a rich vein of Spike Jones recordings.)

Title-holder Brian KenKnight says that the decline of locally-bought music, along with rising property taxes, caused him to make the pronouncement. He told us that the vinyl collectors were still coming in, but his primary customer base of college students have turned more and more to digital downloading, both the legitimate and illegitimate variety.

Now’s huge, flashy, electronics stores have nothing on independant shops like Fine Groove. Brian can tell you the career description of nearly any musician from the 1920s on. He’s the kind of shop title-holder that really listens to the stuff he sells and knows that if you like artist A that you might also like artist B. He keeps a pair of turntables behind the counter and will let you play something to see if you like it before you buy it. At Best Buy, you’re lucky to get a sales droid who’s aware that Thelonious Monk is not a rapper.

More than economic, the closing of Fine Groove will have a cultural impact on Northfield’s Division Street. Fine Groove was a house to hang out and talk music with someone who knows and likes music, and you always came out feeling richer (in the spiritual sense) for having gone in. Independent business owners who are informed and enthusiastic about their products are few and far between these days.

In tribute to Brian and other indie music shop owners, here is a pool of record marks from days gone by. Though Columbia is still around, and Gramophone eventually became EMI, these are marks mostly over and done by all but us who dig in thrift store boxes and dusty bins in hopes of finding that obscure folk song or Uncle Johnny Coons comedy routine.

Obviously some careers were more vital than others. I imagine any luxury services, like hair salons, etc, were the first to go out of business. But even during hard financial times, there are still things that a family must buy! Help me come up with a excellent list of professions that would help a man sustain his family during the Fantastic Depression of the 1930′s. Thanks.

Answer by churchonthewayseniors
medical field
police officer
grocery store title-holder/operator
moving, mainly bus drivers.
plumbers.
education

Answer by nuejerz
the best jobs during the depression were as follows:
Prostitute
Booze runner
Bootlegger
Bookmaker
Gangster
Hobo
Chinese laundryman

Answer by Robert
Politicians made out excellent, but even professionals like doctors etc were charitable away their services because people couldn’t pay.

I was gonna say food provider, but if people are hungry it’s hard to charge full price for food.

Answer by dragor321
Most jobs already mentioned signal nice , but during the fantastic depression it’s everyone for him self. So the best job would be a mobster

Answer by Mike S
This is really a excellent question… if you could get a job with the electric company, water company, or even a bank, you could support your family. I imagine teachers did okay… at least they had work. Doctors and dentists, of course, weren’t paid much in those days, but they could still make a living. Laborers were many… you could wait to be called for work, but there was never a guarantee. You could have be converted into a boxer… boxing was huge in those days.

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