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Suitable Part-Time Jobs/quitting current one

J

Hello!

I got my first job 5 months ago at McDonald's and I'm doing 2-3 shifts a week since I am also full time at college.

I started off ok and I think that's because I was just so excited to have a job and prove I could earn money for myself. Unfortunately it has gotten more and more difficult as time goes on and is becoming unbearable.

I had really hoped that I could prove to myself that I could do well in a super high stress job, but I don't think I'm strong enough. It is constantly loud and busy, all sorts of beeping and clanging and shouting going on at all times. I can never hear what anyone says to me because of all the background noise (as I'm sure some of you will relate) and so managers get angry at me and some people think I'm rude when I really don't want to be.

I don't know the process of leaving the job and I don't really know who to speak to about it, and my mum is not supportive of me leaving as she has never really understood how things may be more difficult for me than my coworkers. 

What sort of jobs do you think I should start to apply for instead? I would like to save some more for uni in September but I can't handle much more of this job. 

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  • dunno, a admin job maybe but i found admin to be very boring and hardly have anything to do and end up feeling guilty like your taking money for nothing, especially when they have to get rid of actual workers who do stuff too. so admin is pretty easy and stress free aside from the guilt and boredom of not really doing anything.

    but personally, i found great growth in beating my desire to quit and holding on, then when i work through things like that it seems to get better and i grow personally from it. i guess thats the same in everything as thats also true for relationships, you have to work through the bad and hang on in there to make it work or so people say, never had any relationship though. my first time forcing myself through my urge to quit and forcing myself to develope and carry on was when i took up martial arts and wanted to quit that many times, some for the social awkwardness and alot for the physical beasting and making me feel sick and faint alot of the time with how hard they pushed your fitness, but i fought the urge to quit that and that changed me for the better and made me able to change alot in life like my laziness and my fussy eating and able to work out all the flaws in my life and eventually get a job and be able to handle it due to how i developed and able to fight around the urge to quit that even going through 15 hour shifts every day to which i later challenged the bosses on and their bad treatment of workers and got changes in the work place due to my new found assertiveness. but yeah, sometimes you need to fight the urge to quit and it can lead to massive changes and developments, but thats a personal thing and your own journey that you may only learn in some other thing you do. 

  • in reply to Caelus

    i suppose also the saying "the biggest enemy in your life is yourself" also rings true, once you beat yourself and your urge to quit, you temper yourself and go through hard stuff but then come out far stronger and more resilient. 

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