I quit my job within 2 weeks

I just quit my job at Home Depot after working for about 2 weeks there. Today I just felt really stressed and anxious about going to work. I didn’t have a good experience last Sunday when I went to work and they ask me to do a lot of heavy lifting of soil and rocks. I think that bad experience may have contributed to this. However, it isn’t the first time I quit soon after getting a job, 4 years ago when I found an accounting job, I had quit within 5 days. I just feel really bad and confused now that I quit my job. If I cannot even do Home Depot which is relatively stress free, what jobs can I do??

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idk if i could lift big heavy things like that i’d get really stressed, maybe it was too much for you,

Yea it definitely didn’t feel like the job for me with all the heavy lifting. The dealing with customer part was alright. I learned how to sell and find lawn mowers and barbecue grills. Although there had been many times where I didn’t know the answer to customer questions and had to refer them to my supervisor. I only found this job through my friend’s referral. It feels like I disappointed my friend.

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sounds like you did your best and thats what matters,

for me, i have been told that i will have support when i start working again so i won’t be on my own and i will start small and see how much i can do , 10 hrs at first so 2 hrs a day 5 days a week if i can manage it, i’m just starting volunteer work just now though to build up my tolerances and gain new skills.

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Yea that sounds like a good idea. I think I should have started with volunteer too. Home Depot was giving me lots of working hours, so I felt stressed with that too. At one point they scheduled me to have 37 hours. I asked them to cut it down to only working 4 days a week and maximum 6 hour shifts. But I couldn’t even attempt to go to work today with the new schedule because I just felt too anxious. :frowning:

its hard, i don’t think anyone can go from being sick to being able to do 37hrs a week, now that is crazy :confused:

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Its ok @anon95278303, dont be so hard on yourself.

Next time you will be more prepared - Volunteering is a good idea

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İ m not sure what is the work schedule of cleaning job at usa but i think you can find 4 hours day cleaner job.its easy and fun stress free job.when i was australia i worked 2 hours a day cleaning job.i m sure you can find 4 hours( 2 morning 2 evening or night ) shift job.

I used to work in commercial maintenance, it was relaxing work once you got a good flow going, but some of the people you have to deal with…made me want to kill sometimes…

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Don’t shoot yourself down. Just because you were not successful at Home Depot, it doesn’t mean that you can’t do anything else.

In 1988 a friend got me a job at the restaraunt he was a waiter at. He helped me to get a job as a prep cook which basically meant I helped the cook by making sandwiches, salads or just arranging the food he cooked neatly on a plate. By the way, arranging a meal on a plate at a restaraunt is a fine art. It has to be done perfect, right down to how the parsley rests on the meat or how close you place the mashed potatoes next to the steak.

Anyway, I was a lousy prep cook. I was slow and sloppy and bad at preparing food. So the owners demoted me to washing dishes and they promoted the dishwasher to take my place as a cook. I failed at dish washing too, I just couldn’t get the hang of it and I did terrible at cleaning the kitchen. So I got fired. Dish washing is actually not that hard, I’ve been successful at it at other jobs but I failed there.

Well, ten years later, I got a job unloading trucks which I excelled at. I also had to pull stock from the shelves in the stockroom which required me to memorize dozens of stock numbers and I also had to learn out how to use a computer. But I did a good job, in fact I was one of the best workers on our 8 or 9 man crew. I also had to fill out bills of lading and inventory forms. At this job, it could get hectic and chaotic and we had to move fast and efficiantlly.

So you see my point. I’ve been fired from a dozen jobs. So what. It doesn’t say anywhere that I can’t do better at my new jobs.

Jobs are funny that way. I’ve been the best worker at some jobs and I have been the worst worker at others. There’s a lot of factors at jobs. Sometimes the people you work with at a new job can make or break you. Some jobs that you would think would be easy are actually hard and vice versa.

Maybe you can just chock up your leaving your job to experience and keep trying. I was a Park Ranger from 1999-2001. Now I’m a janitor. The world is full of ups and downs. And things go sideways and backwards and forwards. If you keep trying yo may find another job where you like the people and you like the tasks and you may like it so much that you do good at it and stay there for two or three or four years.

You may get another job and hate it. But you may not. Counting from when I was 17, I have had about 30 jobs in 35 years of working. And I’ve been fired from a dozen. Sometimes I only lasted a couple of days or a couple of weeks.Other times I lasted three or four years.

Not doing good at one job does not foretell how you will do in the future. Do a search on Abe Lincoln if you can. Look at his history as a politician before he became president His story is amazing and very inspiring. He failed at many political positions. He lost a half a dozen times in important elections. He also suffered from depression and I believe his wife was either seriously physically sick or psychologically sick. But Abraham Lincoln went on to be one of our greatest Presidents. Yeah, as schizophrenics we have confidence problems. But we’re just like most people. We have setbacks but we can recover from them. Good luck.

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@anon95278303 – mind if I move this to Work and Recovery where it will have a wider audience?

Thx.

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Yea sure you can move the thread to work and recovery. By all means, you are the moderator. Thanks. And thanks @77nick77. Your post is really inspiring and I will definitely keep trying to look for new jobs and work.

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Moving it! :slight_smile:

This category is a bit of an exception as someone might have posted it here to limit the post’s audience. We will usually ask for the post author’s permission before moving things out of here.

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You can take a rest and prepare for your next job. I was fired from my first long time job. The company, boss and colleagues all sucks. Then I prepared several months for next jobs. Then I did well at my next job.

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Not true. I worked full time Floridly psychotic. Not the safest thing but I did it.

Mind you I come from a family that more or less has a ‘deal with it’ or there are no hand outs in life kind of attitude.

I made it through though.

But then again some people’s tolerance to stress is worse than others

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For me a janitorial job where I was basically just given a mop pointed where to mop then left alone worked great.

Also a food processing job where I was just 1 among many on the line was ok.

Hi. Sometimes you’re just not ready. Do you have access to an employment agency? They might be able to help you find work and even volunteer work. If you don’t, have you thought about applying to a supermarket stacking shelves?

I have access to an employment agency. The problem is that I have a huge time gap since my illness onset of 5 years. I only found this Home Depot job cause my friend referred me. I applied to Starbucks and some others with no replies all the time…I am thinking of going back to school to really cover up the time gap.

I think retail jobs are actually often a lot harder than most people seem to think. Usually it is shift work and you’re either getting up really early or staying up really late - and often they’ll want you to do both in the same week. Because turnover is high, training is often rushed and dismal. Supervisors are often just whichever employees made it the longest, and are not necessarily good leaders. Passive-aggression and poor communication is common, as well as having everything feel unorganized and chaotic, by the “seat of your pants”. You’ll often be expected to know things that you’ve never been taught and maybe didn’t even realize you would need to know. Understaffing is common so prepare to do the work of 2-3 people as fast as you possibly can, never catching up and so never being “good enough” oh and also without getting breaks in many places. Not unusual to have a question and nobody knows the answers because everyone else received the same dismal, rushed training and will avoid you like the plague because you’re new and have lots of questions. And so on.

Saying you “cannot even do” a retail job is not really saying anything horrible about you. Most retail jobs are stressful as all hell for even neurotypical people. There’s a reason why the turnover is usually so high, and the low pay is only part of it.