I hope vent type posts like this are allowed here, I don't intend to be breaking any rules.
I really need a job because I need to move out of my mom's house and I also have close friends who need out of their houses who I want to gather up and make my roomies. Thing is, obviously, this requires money. I'm 18, in high school, and don't have much experience. Worked four months at Walmart (fired) and more recently, 5 at Taco Bell (quit).
I quit Taco Bell because honestly, felt like it was killing me. I didn't even work that much, 10-20 hours depending on the week, but it took its toll. I have friends I want to talk to and hobbies I want to engage in, so I often found myself running on minimal sleep for days at a time. 3-5 hours was common, 1 or 2 wasn't unheard of, and a time or two I never went to bed at all. I had days where I'd get up at 6am to go to school and have maybe 20-30 minutes at home before I went to work for another 4-5 hours. I was always tired, had constant migraines, my eyelid started involuntarily twitching, and my heart beat faster all the time. A combination of anxiety, sleep deprivation, and living off caffeine was to blame.
My bosses yelled a lot; that was the main reason I quit. The work itself was fine. I actually find interacting with customers and taking orders pretty engaging, it wasn't very physically demanding, but time to time during a rush I would make a stupid mistake. That mistake would be answered with yelling. If I offered a simple explanation for the mistake, like “Oh I thought I was supposed to do this, but now I realize I actually had to do that, sorry” I was yelled at for 'talking back'. Other employees got yelled at too, in situation where it would be much more appropriate to tell them in private. I started arriving to shifts already in anxiety mode fearing when I'd get yelled at that day.
Eventually, I got yelled at one last time, for something so minor I can't recall what it was. So, I quit on the spot, and the next day immediately started my job hunt. That was two weeks ago, and I've had 4-5 interviews with no success at all. It feels like some sort of cruel parade. I waste time getting ready and going out to the location (mind you I cannot drive), go through an embarrassing process where I explain why I left my past jobs, only to get the inevitable “we are going with a different person” call or email. I got rejected by McDonald's, man, fricking McDonald's!
I just don't get it. Yeah, my experiences were brief, but it still is experience. I have a wide open schedule, am willing to work overnights and holidays, yet nobody wants me. And they all act like they are so desperate for employees. I really wish I didn't have to get a job, and at this point I fear no one will ever hire me. I hate that society forces me to go find a job I don't want, then adds the extra insult to injury by making finding one a hellish, stressful process.
'Nobody wants to work' my ass.