I have some tough decisions to make and I need some advice- well not even, I just need someone to tell me I am doing the right thing who has no vested interest in saying that I am.
I quit my job as a tea room server and now I am regretting it. It was a wonderful job at a family run business. I only got a few hours a week and Sundays off because we were closed on Sundays. I left to pursue something more in my feild doing some photo retouching and restoration work. It came up as a second job, which I desperately needed this summer. I stuck with it, so basically the job I have now makes almost as much money in one weekend as I make in an entire month at the tea room. This comes at a price though.
In addition to school, I am working 19 hours a week- crammed into only 3 days. I work from 5-9 on Friday nights, 9-6 on Saturdays and 11-5 on Sundays. I'm always alone. I had one very small training session on how to retouch and then that was it, I was on my own. Same with taking passport photos. Now I feel like whenever I come in though, it seems I have always messed up on something. I know why. Part of it is not being taught everything I need to know, and part of it is being completely exhausted by the time I get there.
In addition to my job, I go to school where I not write for a paper- but edit a section of it, and need to work at an internship. I like my bosses enough, but we only have a staff of four people including me, which means if I'm sick or need a weekend off- I have very little flexibility to get time off.
I get back "home" from school on Wednesdays and I will soon be interning Thursdays. Then I go into weekend working, then leave, right after work on Sunday and get home- school home, at around 7:30 if I am lucky.
As hard as it is. I think I really need to quit my job. It's only a week into this crazy balancing act and I have already managed to make myself sick- and as a result, my boyfriend (in the little time that I saw him).
So now I have to hope that the tea room will have me back. I only left on the 1rst of this month. Wow, that's pathetic. My mom is checking for me (while I am at school) and then, I go see the owner (whom is a wonderful lady) on Thursday or Friday- assuming they haven't hired someone else.
My biggest fear is that the old place will not be able to have me back, and the new place won't allow me to drop down in hours and then I will have nothing- which will really suck.
I'm only 22, I have plenty of time to get work experience right?
I quit my job as a tea room server and now I am regretting it. It was a wonderful job at a family run business. I only got a few hours a week and Sundays off because we were closed on Sundays. I left to pursue something more in my feild doing some photo retouching and restoration work. It came up as a second job, which I desperately needed this summer. I stuck with it, so basically the job I have now makes almost as much money in one weekend as I make in an entire month at the tea room. This comes at a price though.
In addition to school, I am working 19 hours a week- crammed into only 3 days. I work from 5-9 on Friday nights, 9-6 on Saturdays and 11-5 on Sundays. I'm always alone. I had one very small training session on how to retouch and then that was it, I was on my own. Same with taking passport photos. Now I feel like whenever I come in though, it seems I have always messed up on something. I know why. Part of it is not being taught everything I need to know, and part of it is being completely exhausted by the time I get there.
In addition to my job, I go to school where I not write for a paper- but edit a section of it, and need to work at an internship. I like my bosses enough, but we only have a staff of four people including me, which means if I'm sick or need a weekend off- I have very little flexibility to get time off.
I get back "home" from school on Wednesdays and I will soon be interning Thursdays. Then I go into weekend working, then leave, right after work on Sunday and get home- school home, at around 7:30 if I am lucky.
As hard as it is. I think I really need to quit my job. It's only a week into this crazy balancing act and I have already managed to make myself sick- and as a result, my boyfriend (in the little time that I saw him).
So now I have to hope that the tea room will have me back. I only left on the 1rst of this month. Wow, that's pathetic. My mom is checking for me (while I am at school) and then, I go see the owner (whom is a wonderful lady) on Thursday or Friday- assuming they haven't hired someone else.
My biggest fear is that the old place will not be able to have me back, and the new place won't allow me to drop down in hours and then I will have nothing- which will really suck.
I'm only 22, I have plenty of time to get work experience right?
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I hope the tearoom will be able to take you back.
You're quite right that you're still young and you've got many years ahead of you in which to get work experience.
You're going to school, and working on the school newspaper, and doing an internship (what is it?), so relax. It's not like your resume is going to have some huge gapping hole in it.
Have I ever told you how cool I think you are? You've got this incredible drive. You're one of those people who makes me feel tired just thinking about their hectic schedule.
Assuming you won't starve without the job, by all means quit.
No one will ever think the worse of you for it.
Years ago, I worked at an employment agency for technical professions like engineers. Trust me, I didn't care what job they had while they were in school.