This is going to be a long one I’m sorry, I’ll do a tl;dr at the end. Long time lurker of Reddit but I’m having trouble deciding what to do so I want to ask here.
Basically I work at a small pharmacy. It’s not retail, we supply rehabs and nursing homes. I really do like the job and most of the people I work with, however the management is really pissing me off.
During my training I was told shift openings are offered to everyone in order of seniority. So if someone working there quits or changes jobs, the shift lead walks around and offers it to everyone in order of when they started. As of late though this hasn’t been happening. I’ve been getting outright ignored and it’s kinda getting to me. Since I started (about 5 months ago) I have applied for 4 different shifts. One in order entry, one doing IV supplies, one restocking emergency kits, and one regular packing shift but on a set of hours nobody wants. So far I have heard literally nothing about 3 of the 4, and the other one they took a new hire over me when she didn’t even apply for the shift. It was offered to her after I was told I had it.
Then the other day my shift lead came up to a new hire (that I helped train) and asked him why he didn’t apply for the e-kit position, and from what he told me they seem desperate to fill it. Here’s the thing though, I was the ONLY person to apply. I am 99% sure if this because it’s a job that requires a lot of heavy lifting and nobody else wants to do it. So being the only person who showed ANY interest in the shift, I thought I would be a shoe in, but I guess I was wrong. It’s been almost 2 months since our last e-kit person quit, and the night shift e-kit woman is pregnant so she doesn’t do them (and hasn’t for months).
Already I was getting irritated that I haven’t heard anything about the shift. It comes with nicer hours and a $.50 pay cut but I’d take that for the better hours easily. Then we move on to 2 days ago. Me and the same guy I helped train were walking in to work and he got pulled aside by our HR lady. She asked him if he would be interested in a shift that comes with almost the same hours as the e-kits, but just doing regular packing. This is a shift that even people who have worked there for years would love to have, and this guy whose worked here for a few months gets it before anybody else gets the chance? When I heard this I got pretty pissed off and spent the rest of the day wasting time and considering just leaving entirely.
Now I’ve told myself that once this job comes to its end I’m going to throw myself into YouTube/twitch and try to make something of myself there. Doing content creation/gaming is my dream job and it’s something I’ve wanted to do for over 10 years, but I’m finally in a position where the only roadblock is not having time from this job. I told my gf my grievances I’ve been having and she told me she fully supports me quitting and trying to stream and make videos, but this job is also a good source of income for us and leaving is going to slow down our future plans dramatically.
So that’s my main question, is it worth leaving this job (a job I don’t hate and pays well but management sucks) to follow my dream, even though my dream doesn’t pay well unless you make it off the ground?
TL;DR: it feels like my management either forgot about me or is trying to make me leave, should I bite the bullet and try to follow my dreams or stick it out and stack up money?
(If it’s important me and my gf both do have a modest amount saved up so even if we both quit working we could survive for a while before needing more money.