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Part time job issue

  • 03-05-2014 10:36pm
    #1
    bleach94
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282 ✭✭


    Hey, I hope this is the right place for this post but it's been on my mind for a while now.

    I'm a 20 year old student in first year of college who last month got their first part time job. The timing was a bit odd, as it coincided with the start of my study month for my first college exams.

    Unfortunately, I think I have taken on too much for my first ever job. I'm working in a newly opened retail store which is quite small, therefore everyone must know about every part of the running of the store. I've been thrust into something in an area I know next to nothing about, and I feel totally overwhelmed. I also live a decent drive away, and these are things I didn't really consider when I was applying as, honestly, I didn't think I'd get the job.

    It's cut into my study time a lot this month, and my exam preparations have suffered as a result. It is a lot more intense (lots of expectation and constant evaluation) than the majority of part time jobs people I know have gotten, and in the month I've been there so far it's left me stressed, tired and unhappy coming home, and with college and family issues as well I am struggling to cope.

    I know I am lucky to have a job, and that if I quit now I will probably be deemed as the one who gave up when things got tough, but I honestly think I have taken on too much. I have hopes of a couple of small trips away this summer, and I don't feel I need the money so badly that I would hold onto the job at the expense of the trips I already know I won't get the time off for (I have already lost a lot of money on a one day trip to England as I could not get the day off. Basically, I want to enjoy my summer and not fit things around a job I'm not happy in and that I don't particularly need.

    I know I will be frowned upon by people for jacking it in after one month, given that I also had to do three weeks of training before starting, and that it would leave my manager even more short-staffed in the short term than she is (we were originally supposed to have one more employee than we do, which is why everyone, me included, is on extra hours).

    What do I do? Stick it out and see how the summer goes or just bite the bullet with something I don't think will realistically work when I return to college in September anyway?


Comments

  • #2
    littleblackDRS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 221 ✭✭littleblackDRS


    Hi OP,

    I was in a situation similar to yours last summer. I was worried about my degree, and i didn't feel like I needed the money enough to warrant the stress.

    So i jacked it in, and I never once regretted it. If you don't need the money, and you feel like it's cutting into your life more than you're comfortable with, I would say leave it.

    You never know, the job might go to somebody who actually needs it.


  • #3
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    It's easier to get a job when you already have one, bizarrely. Look for something more suited to you before leaving your current job.
    With regards to not getting time off, I know this is a mean thing to do, but just ring in a sickie. Tell them you have bad diarrohea and you can't leave the house.


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