I currently have a job as a multi-unit spa manager. I am grateful to have a job, and it doesn’t pay bad… But all of my peers get paid more. They are in computer science/engineering or mechanical engineering. One of my friends is a Waffle House manager, but makes nearly 3x what I make, but I’d say he’s at least as stressed as I am.
Which leads me to the problem: the stress. I am completely overwhelmed. I have one spa performing as one of the top locations in the franchise. The other location has the potential, but I can’t get it right. I can’t get the staff to perform, they will not communicate their needs and then quit because I wasn’t doing enough for them or whatever leading to understaffing and me working overtime covering their shifts and picking up the Slack, equipment breaks far more frequently at that location and is always creating a headache, I constantly get calls/texts/or emails of something going wrong or a bad review rolls through or something else. Every time my phone vibrates my anxiety spikes and I literally watch my heart rate on my Garmin bounce 15-20 bpm. That can’t be normal. My stomach is always in a knot and I can’t sleep because idk what to do. But I know I can’t do this anymore. I feel like I’m the problem and I don’t know how to fix it any other way than moving on.
That and I was visiting family this weekend trying to get my mind off work and my grandmother falls while I’m getting calls from work and in literally trying to make sure she hasnt broken anything and help her off the floor and then and hour later a different employee quits… Maybe I’m just not strong enough but I can’t deal with this job and life.
I know I don’t want to be in management anymore, but I have no idea what else to do. I think I want to go into tech, but a lot of the posts I see here are really discouraging. Lots of people not able to get decent jobs in tech and are struggling or jobless. People that have training and experience in IT or computer science. I don’t have any education, skills, or experience in tech. Aside from developing a commissions spreadsheet for my job that tracks sales and generated conversion and commission amounts for each employee. I’m pretty proud of that, but that’s hardly going to get me a job in tech.
So I am trying to be grateful, but I am so unhappy, and I’ve been this way for 3 years, at least.
I just don’t know what to do anymore. Thanks for reading my sob story if you made it this far.
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