[JimRed]

And what the heck did you do to prevent yourself from winding up in this obvious craphole job?

He didn't choose his parents carefully enough, so he has to WORK his way through school.

[American_Centurion]

Then it isn't by definition a "dead end job" it is called a stepping stone and a person in that situation should be smart enough to see that it won't be their perpetual plight to stock shelves.