It is very similar to purgatory. Time passes very slowly. Which is great because when you finish six months and talk to your friends who have been in the same place doing the same thing, they can't believe how quickly the time has gone.

"You've been gone six months? Wow it feels like you were just here."

Meanwhile, you've experienced the emotional roller coaster of record-breaking sales days and soul-crushing gut-checking hours upon hours of dead days in the mall where you couldn't sell a dollar for 50 cents.

Sounds weird, but it makes you feel "wise beyond your years" if only because you feel that time passes so slowly.