25 Signs You Like Your Job Way Too Much

Having an after-school job is a necessity, but most of the jobs available to high schools students are in the soul-crushing world of retail. Despite your best efforts to make this just a temporary position, some after-school jobs have a way of sucking you in, until one day you wake up and realize you're 30 years old and still working at the same crappy mall. We here at SparkNotes want you to achieve your dreams, and so we offer the following warning signs of job satisfaction. If any of them apply to you, it's time to quit before you get too comfortable:

1. Your manager gave you a binder.
2. You know how to handle returns and discounts.
3. You signed up for the 401(k) plan.
4. The last time you needed to check the posted work schedule was four months ago.
5. Instead of eating a Balance Bar alone in the parking lot, you enjoy a pleasant and social lunch break with coworkers.

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6. Thanks to the store's music, every time you hear Fall Out Boy at home, you instinctively fold clothes.
7. The regional manager knows your first and last name, and where your sister went to college.
8. 65% of the signatures in your yearbook are from classmates. 20% are from coworkers. 10% are from customers. 5% are from mall security guards.
9. You've figured out that it's cheaper to buy the souvenir soda cup and get $2 refills at the snack stand than it is to buy a new drink each day. (And you share this information with new hires).
10. On days that his wife needs the car, it's understood that you will give your coworker, Keith, a lift home.
11. On your day off, you sometimes forget where you're driving and end up at your place of work. (And then proceed to go in just to say hi and talk).
12. You have work-related keys.
13. You care.
14. You use workplace jargon in everyday conversation (e.g. "I can't stand Katy Perry. By the way, that foot measuring instrument on the floors of shoe stores is called a Brannock Device)."
15. You've attended the birthday and graduation party of your coworker's daughter.
16. You own both the summer and winter uniform.
17. To be prepared in case of emergencies, you keep a spare set of street clothes at work, along with a plastic bag filled with Advil, Pepto-Bismol, and $3.25.
18. Your place of work is mentioned in the "About me" section of your Facebook profile.
19. You know the exact setting and time required to properly cook soup in the break room's shady microwave.
20. You've earned more than 2.3 vacation days.
21. You and your coworkers have an inside joke about something that happened in 2007.
22. You don't even notice the smell anymore.
23. If another coworker has the same first name as you, he gets stuck with the lousy nickname.
24. Your email address includes a cute, zippy reference to your job. (e.g. sassyAreopostaleGal89@email.com).
25. You know the back story behind the empty Arby's cup in the break room, and why it's nailed to the wall.