I’m a high school student working a small, semi-seedy roller rink in a big city. I’m paid $7.25 an hour (minimum wage where I live) plus tips (which are very little because who tips at a roller rink). Originally I was a-okay with this arrangement because I loved the work and roller skating is a passion of mine. But over time the rink has been pushing me to my limit.
The big thing is that they’ve expanded their schedule and have added hours onto previously manageable shifts. Shift that were once ~4hrs 15min or so are now 6 hours or so. I could work my schedule with the old hours but now I’m less sure. Plus the 4 hours alone on roller skates are exhausting so I can’t imagine 6 with no breaks.
The other thing is my co workers. Specifically my managers and the older people (all college aged or so). They had built relationships and “bonded” with each other way before I joined the team, and treat me as such. I’m not the best with “getting semi-personal” with people so I was also fine with this. They’d not talk to me unless something needed done and vise versa. But since they’re all buddy buddy with the managers and each other, it leaves all the actual work fall onto me on the nights that group works with me. I’ll be buried underneath a mountain of used roller skates they’d still all be chitchatting around the cash register. (Plus all my co workers, not just this group, are pretty flakey)
Should I quit? I love the job but I feel like I’m at the end of my rope. I also feel like I could be a a bit over dramatic but even my dad has been pushing me to bail since I first got the job.
I’m currently writing this at 12:45, my shift ends at 1am and I have another shift from 2:45-9 tomorrow.
Edit to clarify, my real question besides for if I should quit or not is, where do I go after this? Like I’ve said I love the work so idk if I could go from this to Wendy’s or something