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Old Aug 24, 2022, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Blue_Bird View Post
I started volunteering the other day, first day was Monday. It's not really a position, you can sign up for a shift to volunteer any time. I signed up to do it 3 days this week and some days next week

Mondays shift was easy. Todays was hard. I was cutting tomatoes and filling salad dressing containers. I was about to serve people lunch on the main line and then they switched me over to the salad bar, that threw me off and I got extremely nervous, panicky, and almost cried but I didn't, I kept myself from crying, it was hard because the tears were right there waiting to come out. But I pushed through it. I was very shaky when serving the first couple of people their salads but it got better after that and the rest of the shift went really well. I don't deal well with stress or feeling pressure obviously. But I am going back again on Friday.

I felt the urge to flee as soon as I felt like I was about to cry but I managed to stay, so I'm proud of myself for that

I know it may seem stupid but I don't do well with feeling pressure or stress and I also have severe social anxiety
It’s definitely not stupid! I’m the same way, if I had to work in food service I’d probably crumple under the pressure. That’s why I like my part time job, there aren’t many customers. Now I’m sure around the holidays it will pick up just as it does everywhere in retail but it’s only for a few weeks.

Good for you for sticking it out! I hope you’re proud of yourself, you deserve to be!
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