I'm an Assistant Manager at a GameStop (or, for our Australian friends, EB).

For the record, I got hired and didn't know ANYONE there.

I love my job. The pay is less than respectable, but I stick with it because I have so much fun. People have been telling me that I should be in sales since I was five years old... and lo and behold it's what I ended up doing. And I'm a natural.

I've been with the company since Halloween 2006, though my first actual shift wasn't until mid-November. I worked six shifts and was promoted into third-key management, the Senior Game Advisor (SGA)position, on 22 December 2006. I worked that until 15 July 2007 when I was promoted to the ASM position.

As an SGA, I was being borrowed out to other stores within three weeks of the promotion. I worked nearly a dozen different stores, though I had only ever been employed by one. Fortunately, once I was promoted to ASM, I think I was only loaned out once or twice. I didn't mind working at the other stores though; it offered a lot of different sales experiences.

I was approached by our District Manager this past May regarding a new store that was set to open in July. He had picked me for the ASM spot at that store, and wanted me to be the one to set it up and get it all going. A Store Manager wasn't even picked out until two weeks before the store was slated to open, let alone the rest of the staff.

I spent three weeks working at a store in a podunk little town with only one Wal*Mart because they were in need of an ASM and we already had a promotion plan in place for the employees at my old store. So, I went over there. It wasn't too bad, but EVERYTHING revolved around that damn Wal*Mart. Even the store's bank was in there. That was unnerving.

So, our new store opened up nearly a month ago now, and we got it all set up and running. The business is somewhat slow since no one knows the store is there yet, but in terms of comps and sales percentages, I'm posting the best numbers of my career thus far.

Rumor has it, Store Management is on my horizon, anywhere between the end of this month and the holiday season. Neat.