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Well, I finally landed a job in this slow economy. It's not the best job in the world or something I would do for the rest of my life, but it is a job About 900 a month. Its a customer service job. The people I work with aren't to bad except for the one girl I have to work with who is a totaly b***h and really two faced.
I enjoy working, it gives me a sense of freedom and at least I have money in my pocket now.
The uhappy part of it all is the two days that are my really long days for me. Which is saturday and monday's. I also only get 1 day a week off which is sunday...but tuesday through friday i work 330 to 630pm...Some days are super busy other days seem to crawl by so slowy..

But on top of work..i still have to do laundry,cook,clean,run errands, etc...So even though I am trying to better my life..I feel like im losing my life. I feel so stressed out...I have been at this job for 1 month and one week so far.

So im in a dilema quit the job i like and make ok money at so that I can be less stressed out and feel less pressure..or Stay with the job but at the same time be so stress out that I can barely relax my mind and always feel stessed out and wishing I could just go home...

Stress is a huge problem, but it may be that there are ways of dealing with the stress. Talking to a counsellor you might find strategies that work for you. (For some people it's exercise, for others its meditation, everyone is different).

If you can find a way to cope with the stress, then maybe you will find yourself in a place where you can keep the job, and the independence.

Advice from an old warrior:


In my teenage years I was a front-end manager for a very busy supermarket. I used to get so stressed that I would get nose bleeds. I never had them before or since. The main reason I would get stressed out was because of people being confrontational. I learned at that time in my life that the worst thing that you can do to someone who wants to pick a fight with you is to feign a calm and apathetic attitude. You see most people are programmed to relieve or discharge stress by battling or combating. If you exhibit an indifferent and tranquil attitude towards their efforts to fight they will not be able to relieve themselves of the stress, especially if they cannot become physical. Their stress will build up and they will be left seething in their own rage. In the beginning when you start doing this you will only be feigning a calm attitude but after a while when you see how effective this strategy is on your antagonists you will begin to enjoy it and you will no longer need to feign it.