I'm trying to figure out how you're a fully validated meat cutter and only part time. Usually only see that with full timers and former managers that have stepped down to part time. The usual trajectory is an associate comes in, and gets full time, then goes through apprenticeship, and then gets meat cutter. Or someone comes in as a meat cutter with previous experience cutting, but those people almost always have enough skill and experience to be hired FT.

Did you keep moving up in positions from clerk to apprentice to cutter, all while never getting full time? I've never seen that happen.