My new job

[Cricket1]

Yes--it's me again. If you read earlier posts, you know that I wasn't exactly having fun with the new boss. She turned out okay and I rarely work with her.

Here's my new issue--I don't really like my new job at all. You guys are the first ones I've admitted this to. I brought it up "gently" with my husband the other day and his response was something like, "You can't always have fun." He's so true. I have tried a lot of different jobs p/t, while I stay at home w/my two kids during the day.

This job has great benefits and pays really well. I work for a large retail store and, without giving too much away, they sell products I know absolutely nothing about. I had tons of computer training before I began the job, but that's a lot different from working on the floor with customers asking things I know nothing about. In training I was told that nobody gets "thrown to the wolves", but that's exactly what has happened.

When I work on a weekday, it's not too bad b/c the store isn't very busy and I can usually find help pretty easily. On weekends, it stinks. I can't find help b/c everyone is so busy and it's absolutely crazy. Not to mention working eight hours on a Sat. or Sun. is a lot.

I'm thinking about going back to running a home daycare (which I have done before), but first I feel that I really need to give the job a chance. I figure that if January rolls around and I still don't like it, then I'll have to figure out what to do next.

I took the job b/c of the benefits, extra money, and getting out of the house. Now I feel like the only "me" time I get is a 15 minute break at work. I don't want to go out w/out my kids when I'm not working b/c I feel like I don't see them much at night at all anymore. I work 20 hours/week.

Anyway, that's my story. Let me know if you have some wisdom, but most of all, thanks for listening.
--Cricket

[MandiDawn]

It seems like every job I have ever had I felt "thrown to the wolves" the first few days. my current job is what my bachelors degree is in and I was way over my head the first few months. I say give it six months. I think you will be suprised to look back come april and think "wow, I know everything now,can't belive I was that stressed before".

You took it for benefits, extra money and getting out of the house -
well if you start up a home-based business you will get some money, but no benefits or getting out of the house. If you give it time to get setteled and past being the "new person" you might make friends and start joking around and having fun with your co-workers. just my two cents. . .

[tigo]

I think you are right in giving yourself a few months to get back into the swing of things. I recently went from part-time in an administrator position to full-time in marketing. It was a transfer within my company to avoid a lay-off, but marketing is not my background and I have zero experience in it. The first week was the worse. I felt like a fraud. The first month was trying to find things the person before me had done (there was a four month gap between her leaving and me moving over). Now I have been in the job three months and it feels a little better, but there are still days I wonder why I took the offer - lol!