Cashiers?

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Some places are worse than others. My worst, I think, was selling shoes. It was an old-fashioned place and we used shoe horns - not a good idea for me. I hurt a customer with one.
It is hard to be fast on the cash; I generally go at a slower speed than most people. Plus we have to bag the groceries.

I've been working in a grocery store for five years now. I never imagined I would be working in such a place, or for that amount of time. The constant stimuli is nerve racking at times, especially when you have multiple people, associates, machines all needing your attention. Amazingly, I'm the person everyone turns to to fix a problem. Fixing machines especially. There is rarely something (or someone) I can't fix. I've been accused of being stoic or unfeeling at times. It hacks me off when I'm interrupted from fixing something or completing a task, which is par for the course in a grocery store.

I've excelled in a place I never thought I would excel. I was a financial advisor before I came there.

I did off and on for a few years and I HATED it with a passion. What's worse was that I was good and was both fast and friendly. Thanks to my Aspie skills I knew many SKUs without even needing to scan them. The customers were generally very friendly (mostly young, above average income families) but that didn't change the fact I used to collapse from exhaustion when I got home.