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labrujahI quit the cafe yesterday. Mostly.
This may not be a big deal to those of you who come and go from jobs, and it probably shouldn't be to me since I've been moving around a lot myself, but I think this is the first time I ever quit a job because I didn't like it.
The last couple weeks have been okay -- the people are exceptionally funny and nice, there's free food, and it's been overall pretty tolerable. Then yesterday I just snapped and was like "I don't want to do this anymore." It's like a switch got turned off. I wanted to walk out right then. But I would never do that because they've been nothing but good to me.
I think it's a combination of getting up early and too many hours (with two jobs I was up to 48 hours a week and one day off; more than I ever worked full-time). Also the weird health problems seemed to be maybe related to being around lots of food and cleaning products, and definitely to the stress of the schedule.
Most importantly, I was resentful -- I felt like I always had to get up early and I was missing the really nice weekends. If I wanted that I would try to get a full-time job.
I wrote a note saying I really like them but I can't handle it along with my other job. Maybe I can work fill-in shifts every other week (I do need the money.) The other consideration was that it's a really hard way to earn your money! I was making enough that I didn't feel exploited, but I was also beat and smelled like BLTs all the time.
It was my first time really working in a restaurant and now I do appreciate the people who do it. I've noticed I've started tipping people because I know they've earned it instead of just because that's what you're supposed to do. And I don't take going out to eat for granted as much now that I've been on the serving side.
I'm still booked up every day for the next two weeks with work unless the cafe owner decides to give someone else my already-scheduled shifts. Hopefully this will keep me from total brokeness while I jerry-rig some other work (probably temping).
I got tired of just maintaining (even if it was for three weeks only so far!) and barely having enough energy to get by. I want to work on Reversible Skirt more, finish the site and start advertising and working with consigners. Also I've been thinking of taking a design course at Parsons or Pratt -- do you guys have any recommendations?
This may not be a big deal to those of you who come and go from jobs, and it probably shouldn't be to me since I've been moving around a lot myself, but I think this is the first time I ever quit a job because I didn't like it.
The last couple weeks have been okay -- the people are exceptionally funny and nice, there's free food, and it's been overall pretty tolerable. Then yesterday I just snapped and was like "I don't want to do this anymore." It's like a switch got turned off. I wanted to walk out right then. But I would never do that because they've been nothing but good to me.
I think it's a combination of getting up early and too many hours (with two jobs I was up to 48 hours a week and one day off; more than I ever worked full-time). Also the weird health problems seemed to be maybe related to being around lots of food and cleaning products, and definitely to the stress of the schedule.
Most importantly, I was resentful -- I felt like I always had to get up early and I was missing the really nice weekends. If I wanted that I would try to get a full-time job.
I wrote a note saying I really like them but I can't handle it along with my other job. Maybe I can work fill-in shifts every other week (I do need the money.) The other consideration was that it's a really hard way to earn your money! I was making enough that I didn't feel exploited, but I was also beat and smelled like BLTs all the time.
It was my first time really working in a restaurant and now I do appreciate the people who do it. I've noticed I've started tipping people because I know they've earned it instead of just because that's what you're supposed to do. And I don't take going out to eat for granted as much now that I've been on the serving side.
I'm still booked up every day for the next two weeks with work unless the cafe owner decides to give someone else my already-scheduled shifts. Hopefully this will keep me from total brokeness while I jerry-rig some other work (probably temping).
I got tired of just maintaining (even if it was for three weeks only so far!) and barely having enough energy to get by. I want to work on Reversible Skirt more, finish the site and start advertising and working with consigners. Also I've been thinking of taking a design course at Parsons or Pratt -- do you guys have any recommendations?
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To Be Serious For A Second
Date: 2003-05-05 10:41 am (UTC)Re: To Be Serious For A Second
Date: 2003-05-05 04:16 pm (UTC)It's pretty good on the many ways that people work -- in love with it and happy to go to it, just marking time, jumping around a lot, feeling shitty about it, doing it to compete with others, etc.
I used to work full-time, but I've never really devoted myself to any job. I did the minimum possible and jammed in a hundred other things. One day I'd like to work somewhere that I'm actually interested. What I mean is, at least it sounds like you don't mind being at your job.
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