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Feeling nervous and guilty for quitting my first part time job

I'm (21f) a third year college student and I've been working at this part time job for about 5 months now since Jan. Which I was able to get thanks to a high school friend of mine. The thing is I want to quit. Having worked here for 5 months now, I've seen so many people get hired and not show up after a week or two. I don't blame them because the job is stressful. I work at a swim school and having to deal with helicopter parents who constantly have an issue, or people walking in just to find info about us at our busiest times, and enrolling people into the school with the schedule they want is already hard enough. At least 3 people have done a no show and 1 recently got fired. In addition, management sucks. They have two locations that are managed by a…


I'm (21f) a third year college student and I've been working at this part time job for about 5 months now since Jan. Which I was able to get thanks to a high school friend of mine. The thing is I want to quit. Having worked here for 5 months now, I've seen so many people get hired and not show up after a week or two. I don't blame them because the job is stressful. I work at a swim school and having to deal with helicopter parents who constantly have an issue, or people walking in just to find info about us at our busiest times, and enrolling people into the school with the schedule they want is already hard enough. At least 3 people have done a no show and 1 recently got fired.
In addition, management sucks. They have two locations that are managed by a married couple. I work at the location the wife manages and the husband works at the other location. The thing is since the wife also coaches a competitive team the husband has to often come in to fill in for her. And the husband is a micromanager and asshole who only cares about work and disregards people's personal lives. Recently I applied for an internship which I got accepted to and it begins June. I went in to my workplace on Monday even though I didn't work that day hoping to tell the wife that I needed to reduce my hours.
Unfortunately she wasn't there, the husband was. I told him about it and he said that we'd need more time. I said I understood and would be able to come in late to work to help out for the first two weeks. He decided since I could come in late then I should just come to work late those days instead of finding a replacement. I can't do that since the internship is a 9-5 job and the swim school operates from 4pm-8pm and I'd be working 11hrs a day. Luckily the supervisor who was in the meeting as well understood and said to just give time to find a replacement. I said sure. Now throughout this whole meeting the manager kept saying that the supervisor told him I planned on staying with the company long term. I did say that in my interview, but this is my first ever part time job which they knew, I'd have said anything.
Now after that meeting and seeing how the manager didn't even care to think about me and having to work 10+ hrs, I don't think I want to work there anymore. I've already written out my resignation letter to hand in tomorrow. I read my offer letter when I had first gotten the job and it says they require a two weeks notice if leaving. That's fine. I just hope tomorrow when I go in its the wife, who's a lot nicer and understanding, that's there instead of the husband. I'm so nervous since I've never done this before and recently they fired one of the workers who happen to work the same days as me so I know if I quit as well they're gonna be understaffed. I know but I still want to quit. This job isn't worth it anymore. And I know they're gonna try to find ways to make me feeling guilty about it or convince me, but I seriously can't deal anymore. I would've left with no notice but my friend who got me the job still works there and I don't want to do that to her.

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