1127 It is goodbye but hello to a new beginning!

Well, what an eventful 2020 it has been so far for me. It is safe to say my circumstances have changed. I am extremely happy to confirm that I believe they have changed for the better 100%. It was the best decision I could have made for a few reasons. The decision I made was to quit my job. I know you are probably thinking ‘but how are you going to pay your bills? How are you going to live etc?’

Well, to be honest, I think I am going to be completely fine. It isn’t going to be that difficult, I will simply get another job. I quit yesterday, I already have a part-time job and have earnt money doing it and I have interviews lined up. I just must be super careful with money for a couple of weeks. It will work out; I honestly believe that you can make anything work if you try hard enough.

Mentally, I am great! I don’t regret it at all! I am not feeling any kind of regret. Don’t get me wrong of course, there are certain elements of the job that I will miss, and I understand that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side but if you are not happy and you don’t feel it is the right environment for you why are you staying there? No job or course or living arrangements are worth it if you are not happy, you don’t expect it to be perfect all the time because everyone has a bad day, and everyone is entitled to a bad day. There is a huge difference between having a bad day and dreading getting up in the morning to go to work, school or college or feeling anxious to go in. If you can change it, change it. In the words of the amazingly talented Amberly Snyder “You can either Give Up, give in or give it your all. I tried giving in, but it didn’t work, I tried to give it my all and it was thrown in my face, so I gave up. Trust me, it will work itself out.

I want you to be a strong independent woman, man or person and do the right thing for yourself. Remember to put yourself first, because your health and mental state come before anything else, before friends, before a boyfriend or a girlfriend, before school, before college course, before the bully that’s been nagging you for years, before your workplace, before your colleague, before anything and everything. Stop letting it go because it is easier than doing something about it, don’t let it slide once more time in case it is just a bad day, why should you?

I hate quitting, if I have committed to something then I do everything in my power to complete it, even if that means a bumpy road. There is only one other thing I have quit in my life and that was in school, I gave up on a subject. I refuse to quit, especially if someone tells me I can’t do something, it makes me want to prove them wrong and throw it in their face. A school need a student, a college needs a student, a farm needs a farmer, and a workplace needs employees, but you need your health and happiness so if anything is not working for you, take yourself out of the equation. Unfortunately, that is what I had to do, I asked for improvements to be made and they let me down, so I have chosen to move on. No one cares if you are happy (apart from family and most friends), so you need to put your happiness and well-being first.

You don’t need a job; you need to find something you love doing and get paid to do it. An employer is only after one thing, a person to do the job and that’s it. If you are not happy, change something to make you happy.

People think they can walk over employees, particularly if they are young. They think they can push us around, scare us into obeying ridiculous and unreasonable rules, show favouritism, micromanage us, see us as an easy target, think of us as someone who they can boss around, and intimidate us into following their weird and twisted rules or change the goal post constantly making you feel stupid and that you can’t do anything right.

Well, not with me. Well, I will let them for a while but when they take advantage, they learn a very quick lesson that they can’t do for long. If I feel there is something not right and that I don’t like the way I am treated, I will voice it once, complain about it once and a third time it is game over, third strike (which I think is fair) and I peace out. No one should have to ask to be spoken to nicely or to be treated with a bit of respect. In my opinion, no one is better than me, no one is less than me. I treat you how I wish to be treated. If I don’t get treated nicely back, then I will treat you how you treat me.

If someone wants to be pedantic, petty, rude, and short, then that is how I will treat you. I start by giving everyone the benefit of the doubt and if you choose to ruin that then that is your fault. Any kind of relationship is a two-way street, just because they are your boss, your teacher, your manager, your best friend, or your sister doesn’t mean they get away with it. They may think they can get away with it but don’t let them.

So, what I am trying to say is STAND UP FOR YOURSELF!

The younger generation now is being called snowflakes. I don’t agree with this. I think we are a lot stronger, and the older generation can’t handle us fighting back.

The older generation would let people speak to them badly and treat them badly, we are choosing to fight back. We are the first generation to have any form of cyberbullying. And it could be right that we are picking up on more mental and physical illnesses/disabilities because we have instant information on Google. We are using our initiative and recognising symptoms that we have researched at home instead of waiting for a Doctor.

Also, they think life is easier now because we have the internet but guess what it’s not our fault, we don’t choose to be born if anything there is a higher expectation because all the resources are right in front of us, so we don’t have excuses. So, as I said, STAND UP FOR YOURSELF, and if they don’t like it wave goodbye.