Should I quit my job?

Oh, and if it helps, the job I’d be searching for would be something like a cashier job at Home Depot, Lowes, or an Auto Parts store. Nothing like working at a restaurant or grocery store where it’s constantly busy. I’ll need something with a little less intensity than that, and the pay is a little better than at those places.

If you do what you love, you will never have to work a day in your life.

if you were rich, what would you do for the enjoyment of it? That is the job you should look for.

@DrBill That’s great advice, but I doubt I’ll find a job I love while I’m going to college. Part time jobs for students aren’t normally rewarding. I don’t need something I love right now (that’s what I’m going to college for, in part), but I’d like something I don’t hate.

I think you should quit assuming you will still be able to pay your bills. You obviously don’t like the job, and you have a perfect excuse to explain why you left, the whole school thing.

I’d suck it up, it’s only six more months and then you have a much longer job to put on your resume. If you really hate it and can afford to take the break, do that. You’re the only one that knows everything in your situation.

And by the way, tell your fiance that being a ‘yes man’ isn’t as helpful as having an opinion. He can support your decision and offer you his opinion and advice.

Life is too short to hate what you are doing. I would find somethiing else until I started school full time.

@asmonet His opinion is that I should quit and he wants to support me while I find another job (though he thinks I don’t need one at all if it interferes with school)...but again, I think he’s biased and I don’t like the idea of having to be supported without just reason.

I see, you original post didn’t give me that impression, thanks for clearing it up.

@asmonet No problem. I can see how I could have made him sound. One of those, “Yes, honey, whatever you say” guys. haha. :)

What’s stopping you from quitting?

I don’t really feel like i needed to read all of that even though i did. Your situation is easy in my mind, because i have played it quite a few times.

SCHOOL IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR JOB!!!!!

Your job is a higher end low paying job that your education is designed to steer clear of. Your job is replaceable. Your job makes you miserable. Your job is not a job, it is a life sentence to misery if you do not quit.

I hope that doesn’t come off as mean; but more as advice from someone that has been there done that. Let your shitty job go, and move toward something better. Even if it doesn’t yield more money, education yields higher satisfaction in a most likely higher paying job (or at the very worst a more satisfying equal paying job).

Even if you end up going through school and end up taking the same agonizing job from the same shitty company for the same substandard pay you’d be better off just knowing you had a better grasp on the role you played and how to work it to your advantage.

THE SHORT VERSION OF MY STORY: Stay in school, quit your job, school is infinitely more important, and anyone that thinks of you any more highly than a piece of rat shit will support you in this endeavor.

Because, it is not only good for you, but good for those you love.

Enjoy your new life.

@JLeslie I just don’t want my resume to look bad, first of all. 5 months isn’t a very long time to be at a job, and I’m not sure if my explanation will be good enough to my next employer. Also, I don’t want to be stupid and quit a job just because I don’t like it. This isn’t my career, and it’s good money. I’d like to quit, but I don’t want to disappoint anyone or make a dumb decision.

Your resume will not look bad because you went to school. Trust me when I say that school is universally known as the best and brightest way to bow out of a job.

Enroll… get good grades and people will be scratching their heads wondering why you ever worked for a bank.

Believe me when I say that you are a million-billion-trillion times too good for your job. You owe that bank nothing.

Okay, your stressful supervisor is going to be gone for 3 months. This gives you to sometime in May for downtime from her. That’s good. Right now, jobs are hard to find and you have an excellent job that will look great on your future resume. It shows trust.

I can tell you this. For twenty years, I worked 2 and three jobs a day. That meant I only received four or five hours of sleep a day. I did this because cops made lousy salaries back in the 60s and my family needed more than one job could provide. No, mine was family oriented, not school oriented. My point is, you sometimes have to do what you have to do in order to reach the finished product. 9 hours a day is tough, but not that tough. You are a young person and this should not bother you. Yes, I was worn out for all those years, but I do not regret it today. I have two beautiful and well-educated children to show for it. And, you will too.

The tough times will make you enjoy your easy times, down the road. It did for me.

Keep doing what you are doing and wait until the real time is right for you to quit.

@john65pennington I’d just like to say that 9 to 9 is not a 9 hour day, it’s a 12 hour day. Add that to studying and homework and trying to find time to sleep enough hours so I can actually pass my classes. I have no children that depend on me and I live with my fiance and another couple who split the bills. My supervisor isn’t the only stressful part of the job. A lot rides on me as a teller. It’s very easy to get fired there, because it’s people’s money and federal/compliance regulations you’re dealing with.

I full understand that you have to do things you don’t want to do, which is part of the reason I haven’t quit yet, but school should be a higher priority, especially when I’m not struggling for money.

@lbwhite89 it sounds like right now you don’t have to do this thing your don’t want to do. It just sounds to me like banking isn’t your gig. What about working at a doctors office or hospital since you want to be a nurse? Or, something where you think the environment is fun? Cosmetics department at Macy’s or sales person at Crate and Barrel or sales at a Pet Store. Or, whatever thing you are into. Or, if you have decent computer skills you can temp and try a bunch of different companies on an administrative level.

I’m actually no longer a nursing student. If I was still in nursing school, it would be impossible for me to work until I graduated. I switched to a bachelors program in psychology and business, hoping to work in HR one day.

An office job (or even a hospital job) would be great, but even though I need to work days/weekends now because of my school schedule, I’ll need nights/weekends when I go to the university. So, I’ll need something with flexible hours so I don’t have 3 jobs in the span of one year. If I do quit the bank, I want my next job to be where I stay until I graduate.

That’s my biggest concern…finding a job. I don’t even know where to start. The Pet Store idea actually doesn’t sound too bad. I’m still hoping I’ll be able to find a Home Depot/Lowe’s/Auto Store cashier position as they will pay more than minimum wage, but in the end I’ll have to take what I can get if I get the offer.

I may consider the temp thing, but I’m a huge worrier and if I go a week between jobs without a call from the agency I’ll probably have a cow. haha.

I earn about what you do in a field that normally pays almostt double that. I could go to another company and get at least a 50% pay raise doing the same thing I do now. Why don’t I?

Well, I like low-stress jobs. After the shitstorm that I call “my early adulthood”, I too am sick of stress. I also like good supervisors who respect me, and I love being a CNC machinist. That is why I work where I do and haven’t even thought about going elsewhere.

Since money isn’t an issue for you, you can afford to do what you want, what makes you happy. Life is too short for shit jobs, at least when you don’t need the money. I know that the only way I would put up with that was if the alternative was starving in the streets.

However, I think you might want to work it so that your reason for leaving is to go to school; that looks better on a resume than “Voluntary quit” ;)

Normally, I would say what you said earlier, “Don’t quit your job unless you have another one”, but after reading some of the other comments I think you should take advantage that your teller leader from hell is gone for a while. I also agree that your education is very important and I think that you must be going to school to do something you want to do in life. So maybe you should “suck it up” until ms. leader from hell comes back and then do the respectful thing and type up a 2 week resignation letter, and get back to school. Your significant other probably realizes that your education will pay off later on and maybe you can help later when he needs it.

Why not get a degree in HR? My husband has his undergrad in HR and has had a great career. You can still minor in psych maybe? I took almost all of my electives in Psych, but not enough to call it a minor.

Hospital and Home Depot have day and evening, so you can maybe switch schedules when you need to. So does hotel and restaurant. Oh, and grocery stores and places like Target. Just throwing out ideas, I am not trying to say one idea is better than another. If you don’t quit you can still apply to these places and say in the interview you are trying to secure a job you can be with long term while you are in school, and that eventually you will have to quit the bank because of the schedule.

@JLeslie The university I’m attending doesn’t offer undergrad degrees in HR. Neither does any school in my state. They offer Master’s degrees in HR, but not Bachelor’s. I spoke to someone who works in an HR department and has her undergrad in HR, and she said it’s pretty rare that someone has that degree because it isn’t widely offered. The next most popular major for HR professionals is Psychology and/or Business because they tie right into the job.

@lbwhite89 I suggest focusing on the Business degree rather than psych if you truly want to pursue HR.

My neice is a manager of the human resource dept. at a large automobile company and she got her degree in psychology.

@lbwhite89 You might want to consider which part of HR you want to be in. If you ever want your Masters, having a Business degree might make that easier. I am not sure what the Masters programs look for, that might be something to check out. My husband is a VP in HR. Much of his career he worked in Compensation and Benefits, which tends to be one of the higher paid parts of HR, but it is very math oriented, very analytical, so if that tends not to be your gig, that may not interest you. If it is the people part of HR, then you can probably go either way degree wise. At my husband’s level and higher in decent sized comapanies (5,000 employees+) pretty much everyone has a Masters in some sort of Business thingy, his is in International Business. At his level in that size company they tend to make $150k + if you are curious. Can be as high as $250k in large companies sometimes more, plus bonuses sometimes. Some of it depends on the industry and also where the company is located.

HR is a great choice for many reasons. One of the best things about it is when an industry starts to go down, HR people can just change industry.

@JLeslie I’m more interested in the people part of HR. I plan on getting my MBA after I get a few years of experience under my belt, but I’ve been told by numerous people that MBA programs often seek out graduates from other majors, especially psychology because those people will come from a different educational background than those who stuck with business the entire time. In fact, some MBA programs find a business undergrad to be redundant when accepting applicants.

I chose Psychology, regardless of if the people I’ve spoken to are correct, because I love the subject. I went into nursing for the money and I’ll never do that again.

@lbwhite89 Sounds good.