I recently got a part-time job working with a research team at a huge national hospital. I'm a full-time graduate student, so I thought this would be a nice little income of 21/hr to help me until graduation this summer. After going through their confusing and tedious onboarding process, I was informed that I needed to complete some trainings. No problem. Then, I was given a micromanagement timetracking system that involves me tracking every minute I do work. This becomes anxiety inducing when you are just waiting for a reply to an email, so there's nothing to write for the time elapsed. But okay, we adapt.
Originally, I was told that my job duties were to perform some assessments with a partcipants list that will be provided to me. Now I'm being told that I must go door to door and recruit 5 to 10 participants a week. This study is long and requires a lot of commitment from participants. I know that producing those numbers in my work site is not feasible. This is just adding to my stress, and I truly don't need the money that bad. Just thinking about doing this work is giving me anxiety because I have very little interest in it. I'm falling behind on assignments and am left with little energy to do much else. I thought it was going to be a more streamlined experience, but now I feel that there is a lot of work being put on me that I am expected to complete in two days every week.
So, am I crazy for wanting to quit?