Would you work in a sex shop?

Yeah I think that would be a fairly cool job.

Nope, you're guaranteed to be dealing with **** all day.

A good friend of mine managed one for years. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Back in the day (before the obvious websites that you can use now) those shops were selling videos for €30 or €40 a pop depending on the video. His shop did a returns system where someone could buy a video for €40, return it at any point in the future and they could get another video for €30. So the customer got €10 off their next video but the shop got the original video back which they then re-sold for €40. Many of these were copied videos, not even originals. That along with the mags and other tat meant the place was making money hand over fist. Nothing was done on the books so the money they took couldn't be accounted for apart from a ledger where staff were supposed to write all sales down. He knew staff were skimming off the top even though they were well paid but his rational was that the whole industry was dodgy so he let stuff go. They used to do test buys where he would send friends in to buy certain items and then check the ledger the next day to see if the items were noted in the ledger.

The tax man came after him, he had a huge hole in his CV and it definitely 'changed' him while he worked there. It really was the seediest thing to be around and although he has some great stories and made incredible money from his time there (a lot of which he lost to the revenue down the line) he said himself that he'd never do it again. I don't know how the shops in Dublin are still open now to be honest considering everything is available for free in the internet.

Would be the only Shop I'd work in.

Only place you could treat customers badly and they wouldn't ring Joe Duffy