I (20F) regret working as hard as I have in my life, or working at all. I’ve worked 9 jobs so far. Bad management is one of the main reasons I have quit most of them.
I am at a point where I feel fully confident in dealing with ANY type of management possible, no matter how aggressive. I’m proud of my people skills, and how I’ve handled all but one encounter with management. I still don’t have a car. I still haven’t traveled out of the country. I still have no credit history. I’m stll living in my God Damn childhood bedroom. When I have gone inside of most of these old work places, none of the staff or management are the same, which leaves me feeling validated in knowing my challenging experiences were not personal to me. Seven of these jobs were retail and food service, one was a temporary apprenticeship, and one was a temporary program. My most recent job was the apprenticeship, where I had been working one day a week, from January of this year until the ending of July. During this time my regret for working all of the positions that I have, began to fuel and burn constantly. I super regret working all of these jobs in hopes that something would stick. (I did work a full 12 months at Dollar Tree alongside three of the jobs I’ve mentioned.) After the temporary program that ended in January 2021 my first in-person job was with Goodwill. If I never would’ve quit Goodwill I wouldn’t have had to work the eight other jobs. I have regret quitting there before, but I have been especially thinking about it in recent days. I quit there because management was difficult, I came out of each shift stinking of thrift store, employees had to wait two days after items were put on the store floor before they could purchase them, their dress code was very intensely restrictive, and my hands were bleeding due to how much I would have to wash them. I could’ve worked full-time and I would be so much further ahead financially by now, by about 40k. (I did the math last night.)
I would love to hear peoples experiences with regretting working as hard as they have to only get so far, or regret with quitting a workplace.