I just recently got my first job, so by no means at I an expert in anything nor do I claim to be, but after a month and a half I’ve already put in my two weeks. I take intensive classes at school that require a lot of time for homework, so I set my availability to 15-20 hours MAX a week. Apparently, this only held up for about a week before they thought it was okay to push me beyond my availability.
I started working about 25 hours average and while it might not seem like a lot, it added up pretty quickly and I found it a lot to handle. I went to school from 7:00-3:00, work from 4:00-10:00, and then when I got home the last thing on my mind was school work and my social life. I’d just get home, eat, turn on some tv, then go to bed. But any days off I had I solely dedicated to homework and makeup work.
After a mere month of this my grades started slipping and I already noticed my quality of life going down. So after I talked to my parents about it we all found it the best option to quit, not only because the job didn’t respect me as an employee but also because it had a big impact on my drive in school and my happiness in life.
So now every night I lie awake just thinking about work and careers and such, and it all gets to be too much most often. It seems like everyone, my parents, my aunts and uncles, none of them work a job they REALLY like, even the ones that are successful. I just can’t imagine living that way, and it sucks because the mindset everyone seems to have and all I get told is “That’s the way life is”.
Does anyone have any advice for countering these thoughts I keeps having? Sorry for the ‘whiney’ post, I just felt like I needed to put my thoughts out somewhere.