Yesterday was my last shift at Target. I wasn't a seasonal, despite being hired at the same time (they hired me as electronics), but I decided to resign anyway. I'm starting an unpaid internship working with a nonprofit that does political outreach for improving public transportation in a couple days (I want to work as a transportation planner for the city, so this is a good first step), and I'm graduating university with dual BAs in Geography (GIS focus) and Urban Studies (transportation focus) in May, so I wanted to focus these last months of college on knocking out my crucial Python coding for GIS and senior seminar classes, performing strongly in my internship, looking for a full time job, and doing grad school applications. I just don't see the time for Target with all that, or the desire to deal with the stress, and my Grandmother has offered to send money if I need it. So, I'm closing the door on my retail years and focusing on school. I filled out the voluntary termination paperwork about two and a half weeks ago (shortly before I flew to Europe), then came back from vacation and worked my last scheduled shift, so HR says I'm welcome to reapply in the future, but to be honest, I do hope to escape the retail industry for the rest of my life. I've made sure not to burn my bridge with Target just in case bad things happen and I need any job I can get, but I don't like the retail industry, and I have other places I want to go.