Quit my job

[asmidir]

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?

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Money can not buy happiness... well it can, if, you know, you like shiny things... and games, games are good too.


Also, money can buy cookies...

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[Kasawd]

Go work at a call center.

Your current job will no longer crush your soul because the call center will have eradicated even the tiniest bit of it.

If you really can't take it, then perhaps you should but the job sounds rather cushy to me. I wouldn't really mind that job, considering you don't actually wash the dishes.

EDIT: Oh, jeez, thirteen an hour? Keep the job, man!

 

[hittite]

Trust me dude, you'll need all the money you can get in college. On the other hand, you should probably go a few years before getting your soul crushed.

 

[magic conch]

don't quit unless you have another job already set up. i quit mine a few months ago and i've been living in goddamn poverty ever since trying to find a jon, it's hard as hell.

your job's repetitive, it happens. you're only in year 11, that's the kind of job you're going to have. nobody looks down on you as a peasant. just keep going, you get money. pretty much every job you have at that age will suck.

 

[asmidir]

Yeah I know the job sounds cushy but trust me, your on your hands and knees most of the time (some people are real slobs) and you come home smelling of god knows what, and yes I do have to wash the dishes sometimes.

 

[BubbaJeff]

Suck it up. The money sounds good for what you're expected to do, and it doesn't sound like it takes up too much of your life, so your school work can't be suffering that badly. Work sucks, i'm afraid, get used to it

 

[Embz]

I had a part time job before I went to uni, and even though the money is useful I'm glad that I quite before sitting my A-levels. I had a similar job to you working in a café. I found it soul destroying too it was so boring and I was getting paid minimum wage. There would be no way I could manage my workload from uni and a job.
I quite because A)I had had enough and B)I thought if I could get a decent grade in uni then I would get a good job afterwards and wouldn't have to worry about money.
So personally I would advise you to quit if your not enjoying your work and concentrate on your studies
Hope this helps

 

[Daveman]

FUCK ME. £13 (I assume quid if you say you're in year 11) an hour?! Keep the job, screw your soul. But seriously, 4-5 hours is nothing, if you can't handle your workload in year 11 just during the week there is something very wrong, what are you taking?

Edit: I feel I should mention that I'm a first year engineering student with 4 A grade A levels and I would expect to get about half that rate if I got a summer job. That's a big if too considering there are few jobs in my area (or in most places at the moment).

Edit2: Oh... Australian... yeah well I can't be bothered to look up the exchange rate. But seriously I reckon my previous statement about workload still stands.

 

[AngloDoom]

£13 an hour?

You're kidding?

That's a lot. That's more than most people come to expect. Keep the job. I know it makes you feel like crap, but that's a lot of money to be raking in which will be useful at University. If it's interfering with your studies to the degree you think it will cause you to fail, then fair enough. However, that's a ridiculous amount of money to be raking in at your age, all of which will be useful as hell when you hit University, want a car, all that kind of stuff.

When you hit University, everyone will be looking for a job. You might not even get one the first year, I didn't. If you save up that money on the side, you'll have everything you need to support yourself in Student Finance messes up (like it has a lot, recently) or you find a hobby you wish to pursue.

 

[magic conch]

Yeah I know the job sounds cushy but trust me, your on your hands and knees most of the time (some people are real slobs) and you come home smelling of god knows what, and yes I do have to wash the dishes sometimes.

question, are you from the uk?

 

[Angerwing]

I work full time checkouts at one of the busiest supermarkets in Canberra. I get what you mean by soul-crushing. Every time my friends are going out to the clubs, I either go with them, and work with a hangover, go with them and work really tired, or I don't go with them. It's starting to kill me. Not to mention that I'm standing for 8 or so hours a day in one spot, lifting moderately heavy items. It's terrible.

 

[asmidir]

For the record I'm australian so I'm not paid in pounds or quid.
My parents both work and we're an upper middle class family, I really took the job because I liked the idea of having some independence.

 

[dragonslayer32]

ive been n your position myself. i quit until i got to university and found another job to help with student fees. to ths day, i honestly thnk if i didnt quit, i would not have got the grades to get into university and would have still been workng that same shitty job.

 

[Superior Mind]

Find another job. Upon finding said job, quit soul-crushing job. Since you're at Uni you'll most likely be moving to another soul-crushing job but hopefully it'll be less soul-crushing.

 

[PureChaos]

if you get paid £13 an hour then, my god, stay. for that kind of money to do that job who needs a soul?

 

[magic conch]

For the record I'm australian so I'm not paid in pounds or quid.
My parents both work and we're an upper middle class family, I really took the job because I liked the idea of having some independence.

you get paid 13 dollars, or whatever the australian currency is, for 4-5 hours a week!? that's ridiculous, you'd be a fool to let that job go.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Society is going to break your spirit at some point so you might as well get it over with sooner rather than later and become a mindless automaton who only cares about earning money to consume more.

 

[asmidir]

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

 

[Daveman]

For the record I'm australian so I'm not paid in pounds or quid.
My parents both work and we're an upper middle class family, I really took the job because I liked the idea of having some independence.

You might want to edit your original post to say that. But the job honestly doesn't sound that bad, that's still more than I'd expect to get paid, and I am British upper middle class.