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Tired of being tired (Rant)

Been bouncing around between retail and fast food work for my whole work life and I'm just over it. My first job I worked for a local pizza shop for a couple years. I'd still be there tbh but it unfortunately went out of business last year. Since then, I've worked 3 separate jobs, all of which have been more or less the same experience. Start off strong, feeling good, feeling like I might have actually found something good for myself, management starts taking advantage (giving me more shit to do, higher expectations, worse hours etc…), taking it on trying to be a good “team player”, get burnt out, work declines, management gets upset I'm not upholding the same quality as I started, I get pissed, I quit. It takes a lot for me to convince myself I'm not the problem. Hell, most of these jobs have people who've worked…


Been bouncing around between retail and fast food work for my whole work life and I'm just over it. My first job I worked for a local pizza shop for a couple years. I'd still be there tbh but it unfortunately went out of business last year. Since then, I've worked 3 separate jobs, all of which have been more or less the same experience. Start off strong, feeling good, feeling like I might have actually found something good for myself, management starts taking advantage (giving me more shit to do, higher expectations, worse hours etc…), taking it on trying to be a good “team player”, get burnt out, work declines, management gets upset I'm not upholding the same quality as I started, I get pissed, I quit.

It takes a lot for me to convince myself I'm not the problem. Hell, most of these jobs have people who've worked there since before I was born. I can't ever tell if it's just me being lazy or what it is. I just can't keep dragging myself to work every day, forcing myself to be someone I'm not. It's just exhausting, like I'm living a constant lie anytime I'm at work. I'm a STRONG introvert and have bad social anxiety but Im forced to smile and deal with it cuz I gotta get paid somehow. I keep telling myself it's just a temporary solution and once I finish school it'll be better but that seems like such an unattainable goal when I'm literally dreading the next time I have to go to work. And it doesn't make it easier that it's the holiday season coming up so it's probably only going to get worse. I just don't know how much more I have in the tank.

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