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Without going into too much detail, personal circumstances have forced me to move to a different state and the full-time clinical job that I have been working at for my gap year. No clinical roles near me wanted to hire me within such a short time frame, as I will be matriculating to an MD school this fall (understandably). I am now working at a well-known retail clothing chain. It is a primarily customer-facing role, so I interact with people all day and help them with their clothing needs. I am very disappointed to have left my clinical job, as I projected full-time hours for my entire gap year on my primary application. Fortunately, I am able to continue doing part-time remote work with the clinical role that I left, and I have started a new volunteering/teaching role for around 20 hours each week, so retail isn't the only activity I'm doing. How should I go about framing this retail job in an update letter/LOI to a school where I have been waitlisted?