Quit my job

[Fangface74]

Your a student working a shitty job to get by, hate to tell you this but that's perfectly normal. Many before you had (were forced?) to do it this way, and many after you will do exactly the same.

Maybe use the lows to accentuate the highs?

 

[Idlemessiah]

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£13 an hour?! F**k me. I thought I was happy working for £6 pa working on a till at Asda.

Seriously though, £13 pa is an epic wage for someone your age, at least keep the job until you leave college. Save the money up and it'll make your student loans go a lot further and even help pay them off if you have any spare.

I don't particularly like my job at asda but I keep doing it during the school holidays cause the extra money goes into my 'leaving uni and getting a house' pot.

EDIT:

Some more record info:
You spend the whole time standing up and pushing a trolley around loaded with dishes, and no break.

Oh and you know its the law in the UK that you have to work more than 4 hours in a shift to qualify for a break.

 

[JanatUrlich]

for £13 an hour I would do anything. ANYTHING

Just stick with it seriously, you'll miss the money if you quit. No-one really likes their part-time job

 

[gazonline2001]

Use it, I was a till jockey for 3.5 years. I got a distinction on my HND, First Class Honours Degree, both of which I was top of my school for.

A mindless and demeaning job makes for powerful motivation to succeed.

 

[Danzaivar]

Quit. Prove that you can't be independent of your well-off parents.

 

[AndyVale]

Man up. With all due respect people do this every day forever, why are you any better than them? Plus, 13 an hour is ridiculously good. A summer of doing that should give you a nice solid £2000 or so, sounds like you'll have a party at Uni!

Just get on with it and stop worrying about the "crushing my soul" bollocks. If it's really that bad then use it as a motivation to work hard with your studies and get a better job later. I used to be a lifeguard, 6-16 hours every weekend watching fat ladies and loud kids swim while I sweated my gonads off... all for the princely sum of £5.26 an hour! It was crap, but it made me damn sure I didn't want to do that job for the rest of my life.

People may look down on you, but you know what? If I were them and saw you winging about a stupidly well paid part-time job then I would look down on you too. Get over yourself.

I don't mean to sound harsh, but you are sounding like such a sheltered pussy. Quit if you want, but I doubt you'd find a particularly enjoyable job at your age.

If it's really affecting your studies then you could cut down on your social life for a couple of months or maybe take on fewer shifts?

 

[magic conch]

Some more record info:
You spend the whole time standing up and pushing a trolley around loaded with dishes, and no break.

stop trying to make it sound like you have a hard life. what are youy 16 at most? you push a trolley round, boo-hoo. you get £13 an hour for it. and you don't usually get a break for 4 hours work, man up.

 

[AndyVale]

Okay, just seen the Australian thing and done the numbers. Works out at £7.89, still a fair bit more than most people your age I imagine. I saved peoples lives for less than that.

If I'm honest, there is no shame in sponging off your parents a little around exam time. Yeah you don't want to be reliant on them, but why potentially jeopardise your future on the basis of some flimsy upstanding moral?

 

[Marter]

Apply elsewhere, but until you get accepted, keep the job you have. You are making a fairly good wage for someone your age, and once University hits, you'll want all the money you can get.

 

[asmidir]

Some more record info:
You spend the whole time standing up and pushing a trolley around loaded with dishes, and no break.

stop trying to make it sound like you have a hard life. what are youy 16 at most? you push a trolley round, boo-hoo. you get £13 an hour for it. and you don't usually get a break for 4 hours work, man up.

I'm not looking for some sympathy here I just want some opinions.

 

[magic conch]

Some more record info:
You spend the whole time standing up and pushing a trolley around loaded with dishes, and no break.

stop trying to make it sound like you have a hard life. what are youy 16 at most? you push a trolley round, boo-hoo. you get £13 an hour for it. and you don't usually get a break for 4 hours work, man up.

I'm not looking for some sympathy here I just want some opinions.

okay. here's my opinion. right now, you're lucky enough to have a job as it is, especially one that pays a damn site more than a lot of other jobs. so man up, and put up with it. it's only 5 hours out of your week and you're getting a shitload of cash.

 

[Warped_Ghost]

Man I'm in a similiar situation where I am saving money for Post-Secondary education. But I only work for $9 an hour and I work from 7am to 3pm every sunday and saturday. I work at a car wash and it doesn't sound much better than your job but I am not going to quit because I need the money and I assume you need it to.

Doing this job has made 2 things happen to me. Number one being I lost my soul a long time ago and number two is that I have forgotten what the definition of weekend is.

 

[AntiAntagonist]

Decisive answer: quit if the job is only needed for pocket money.

Considered answer: quit if it's a bad work environment and you believe that you can't get your other life objectives done because of it.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

Hello Escapists,

I'm a student in year 11 and I plan to go on to university in the next two years. I also have a part time job and this is where my problem is, allow me to explain. I work at a local food court in my town, the restaurants are all private buisness so no big chain places and they all serve on plates. My job is to go around from table to table picking up all the dishes and cleaning the table, I then have to take them into a room to be washed up by someone else, repeat that for 4 or 5 hours on a weekend. Now heres the problem.

Straightforward this job is slowly crushing my soul, I feel miserable everytime I walk in the door, I have studies that need doing for school and I can tell that all of the diners look down at you like a peasent. Now you're probably thinking "well why don't you quit?" Well thats the problem, one side of me says quit but the other side says money, yes money (I get paid 13 an hour). Basically my school work and life are clashing with my love of money.

So my question to you all is should I quit or what else should I do?

If you're job is interfering with your studies, then quit. You're job is to go to school and get that degree. If it's just because you hate your job, then stop bitching and got to work. I'd kill for 13 an hour. Also, if people give you shit, just fuck with them; customer service is not your department.

 

[Plurralbles]

Quit. Prove that you can't be independent of your well-off parents.

honestly... this.

My parents gave me two years of college with open pocketbooks. Surely your parents can do the same and you can get a shitty job down the road instead of now.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Speaking as someone who didn't save up as much money as he could for university, and now has to take the real bottom of the pile jobs, I would say stick with it. I had a crap job in high school too, and while I didn't quit I certainly didn't try and earn as much money as possible while there.

Believe me, when you hit uni, you'll wish you'd stuck with it.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

I hate MY job because I love gay porn.

Also go find a better job but don't quit your job now till you find another, better job