Love Letters and Lace

It's normal for a job to cause you some amount of stress. We all experience it. Even the most basic of jobs come with some stress. But what about when that stress becomes too much? This is something I wanted to write about because I recently had this dilemma. I had a job for the past 6 months that was intensely stressful. The pay was great, something that most people my age were not making at their part time jobs, but as time went on, I began to realize that maybe this wasn't for me. I was constantly stressed and the shifts were long. I wont go into too much detail, however as an anxious person, this really began to have an effect on me psychologically. I dreaded having to go into work. I would spend the hours before going to work in a state of panic. And as much as I needed to have a job right now, this is the point when I asked myself, is this really worth it? And for me, it wasn't. So finally, I quit. I'm extremely lucky to have been able to find another job qu

One of the worst things ever is disliking your coworkers or having to work with coworkers who dislike you. Its something that happens to everyone, as we don't necessarily always get along with everyone we meet, but it just seems to be so much worse in a work situation. Why? I guess because, lets be honest here, especially when we're working a part time/minimum wage/transition job while working towards our dream career, we're not exactly working a job we really love. We probably don't exactly shiver with excitement every time we're on our way to work. What makes an unenjoyable job just a little better is having coworkers you get along with and can have some laughs with, to get you through the shift. But what happens if you don't like each other? I've been in this situation time and time again. You're working with some people and you just don't quite get along. Whether its you or them, it doesn't matter. What matters is that you now have to wo