I sometimes struggle with my chosen career. Long story short, due to a back injury I had to give up a well paying but extremely physically demanding job, and took a job at a local grocery store. It's a small, family owned store and the owners have been very good to me over the years (I worked there while in high school). They pay me pretty well and I don't have the stress of worrying about losing my job because I didn't make my daily production rate, like at my previous job.
I've always enjoyed the grocery business and wouldn't have minded getting into grocery management, but my anxiety has thus far prevented that from happening. I don't like telling people what to do and hate confrontation.
Anyway, I'm starting to ramble. I've pretty much got it made where I'm at, and I'm helping to support my family, but I still worry about what people are thinking/saying about me for working at a grocery store. Worrying about what people think of me is something that I've dealt with all my life and I'm working really hard at trying to just not give a ***** what people think.
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