[mistica]

I hope no one minds if I vent a little bit. I decided to go back to school this fall to study something I always wished I had studied the first time I went to university and to help my prospects of going to grad school and finding a better job than anything I've been able to find since leaving school. I submitted my change of availability request to my work (we pretty much work around the clock, but there are some who only work days or only work nights, I was trying to get on mostly days with some days where i can work day or night). Never got a reply back from my email, but they just went ahead and scheduled me during classes anyway.

I'm going to call and try to get it cleared up but this job is frustrating me in a big way. They have no respect for my life outside of work. They've told me I can have days off that I requested weeks in advance, then the week of said that they need me to work. I already have the tendency to devalue myself, and it's so hard to change that habit when I have work to do it for me. They'll schedule me for doubles and then try to get me to work during my off shift. I don't mind working hard but the other stuff in my life outside of this job is important to me; I need that other stuff b/c I hate this job so much, I refuse to let it be my life. I can't tell if I'm overreacting or if this is just what I should expect.

I'm just really upset and worried about the school thing. It was actually my hatred for this job that motivated me to finally stop thinking about school and go for it. But now this job might cost me the opportunity to go this semester. I know I can go in later semesters, I was just really excited to begin. There are just too many things that have happened in the 2 months I've had this job, showing me that my needs and desires aren't important and that they'll take as much advantage of me as they can; I have had to speak up about my pay being wrong multiple times, as an example, and only sometimes has it been fixed.

I'm sorry, this is more about my job than school...there isn't a job board that I could find. I hate that this is the only job I am qualified for, and that I'm having such a hard time making it back to school to help change that.

[DePressMe]

Yeah, it sounds like you are in a tough spot. Your job situation sounds horrible. I can't believe they mispaid you and then did not make it right. Hang in there and get back to school as soon as possible! School sounds like a way to get away from this horrible job.l