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I’m currently working as a chef in the uk for a well known chain of carverys, but recently I realised I’m only working there because my now-ex-boyfriend pushed me to get it to save up to move in together (I have enough savings to pay my rent for a long time, he didn’t have any disposable income). But it’s not what I want to do. I can pay my rent without working right now, and I want to use this time to build up the photography business I started before the pandemic.
My work routinely gives me an extra 10-15 hours a week, we only get one weeks worth of a rota at a time and it’s different every week so I can never make any plans, they still have me come in when I’m sick, and they play favouritism with their employees (for example, there are two people that get every single weekend off whereas the rest of us aren’t allowed to ask for Sundays off as it’s our busiest day. Some people get their chosen days off, I don’t get them off even when asked months in advance (I’m even working on my birthday when no one else there has been made to do that).
I don’t want to work there anymore, but I don’t have the courage to just quit. I don’t want to let the people that actually support me at work down, and I’m scared of black lash or judgement from my family.
Any advice on how to just grow a pair (and how to actually go about resigning), would be greatly appreciated.