I would like to but all three shops in the area only have employees that JUST STARTED VAPING...I mean less then 2-3 months, I havent found a employee in one of the shops thats vaped longer the that...They dont build coils, they dont sell RDA's and they overcharge by crazy amounts...$95 for a damn Cuboid...
I feel I would be out of place in a shop here...some of my friends think I would make the other people look like idiots if I did get hired, so I tend not to send in a application...
Bah, job security. With your level of knowledge and skill, you would probably be a huge asset to the owner. You can train his people in what really are basic job skills in any vape shop, as well as fill what I can only imagine to be a huge gap in customer service. You have, in your head, the information they need to actually run a hip, successful vape shop. Can't imagine them wanting to adequately compensate you for what you'd bring to the table, though.
Or maybe the owners of those places really are just that disconnected from the community that they don't see the value in having people who know what to do with the latest and greatest that vaping has to offer, let alone care to seek it out and stock it.
I've definitely gotten that vibe from a few places in town. Just no idea what's happening in the scene, at all... ...and they were fine with it. Literally felt like it was 2011 in one of them (it was 2015.) There were a few people in there tootle puffing on their ego setups with oldschool clearos and carto-tanks while I'm standing there, gazing in sheer wonder at the time capsules they called displays and taking monster hits from a troll on a sig 150. In a way, it was nostalgic, but I got the feeling that I wasn't supposed to be there.
Anyway, I catch them glancing over at what I have in my hand like they're thinking "WTF is THAT?!" but none of them approach me in the 10 minutes that I wait to find out if the girl at the counter can find me some 0mg juice to dilute their 6mg (the lowest they have.) They stayed over in the lounge area, conversing with themselves and happily taking toots from their 1st-gen clearos.
It was fuckin bizarre and awkward as all hell - some real twilight zone shit. They had NOTHING BUT stuff that I didn't think was being made anymore - all at about the same prices they went for when they were new. I was just like, "Where the hell do you people come from?!" Another question burning in my mind was what they talk about... ...they looked like local spooks of the place. Do they really stand around and discuss their newest pieces of old tech? Maybe its just me being weird for thinking there can't be that much to talk about when it comes to that stuff.
But really, now! There are people keeping these places in business! And they like going there! I have met people who have gone to that shop for years. One that I remember in particular was an older gentleman with a spinner-style battery and a fucking Aspire BDC. Said he picked it up in 2012 and just never saw a need to seek anything more current out. To each his own I suppose, but I still refuse to accept that as not being really strange.
Not trying to trash anyone's vape styles here, I just find these little pockets of people who spend their money on this primordial stuff fascinating. What's baffling to me is just how committed some of them are to their dated vapes. It's some next-level shit to me. I just don't know what to think about that.
What I'm getting at here is that depending on the vape shop, maybe you don't really need to know all that much beyond how to talk to people and handle cash.