7 steps to becoming a \"professional adult\"”

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“I am 18 years old and have just started a full-time job. I work at a day care center from 10:30 to 6:30, and I’m already starting to hate it. I started working there as a substitute employee, and at that time I didn’t need to work long hours. So when they offered me this job, I was really excited at the idea of having more working hours. But I hardly have a life of my own anymore. I can’t do anything else. I always feel depressed and sad. I never have a smile. I would like this job if I didn’t have to stay here working until so late and could take a day off occasionally, but none of that is possible. What should I do? ” Aren’t you happy that you’ve grown up? Seriously, that’s how real life is. However, most people I know who work from around 8:00 to 6:30 will be excited about your working hours. I doubt this is what you wanted to hear. To be honest, if I had to work in a daycare center, I would also feel depressed. I love my own children very much, but I don’t find it attractive at all when other people’s children wipe their saliva on my sleeve. However, a full-time job is a reality for most adults, and those who do not have one are either taking care of young children or desperately trying to find a full-time job. 6:30 isn’t late. If I think back to my past, working well past 6:30 when I was in my 20s was nothing at all. I suspect your question is that you’ve realized this is what real life is like, and it’s shaken you. This doesn’t match your wonderful imagination of adulthood as a time when adults can do whatever they want, eat whatever they want, and wear whatever they want. It turns out that adults spend most of their time doing things that are necessary in order to pay their bills, with the hope of having a few days off from time to time to do what they want to do. Here are some tips that can make your transition into adulthood easier: realize that your life is not over. Just because you have to go to work every day doesn’t mean your life lacks meaning and joy. You still have the evenings – you don’t need to work until 10:30 p.m.; what a blessing that is – and the weekends. Typically, for someone like you who is just starting out in the workplace, the number of days of paid leave is very limited. Don’t complain to your colleagues. I suspect you’ll soon find that your colleagues won’t be able to relate to your anxiety about working full-time. Without a doubt, they have been working for a long time. If you complain to them, they won’t like you, and if they don’t like you, you’ll continue to feel unhappy whenever you think about work. Work hard. Work can be very rewarding. If you sit around all day doing nothing and watch the minutes pass by, you will find it extremely unbearable. And if you commit to it and work hard, you’ll find that time flies by. Find a mentor. Someone at the daycare center where you work who has been doing this kind of work there for a long time. Talk to that person. Study content related to curriculum plans and stages of child development. Don’t just change diapers and pick up toys. Find out how to become a truly excellent provider of day care services for children and learn to do so. Even if this is not your ultimate career goal, the skills you learn here can be applied to your future career. Save some money. Everyone should save some money from each paycheck they receive. And by saving money, I don’t mean saving it to buy a new pair of shoes, although you can do that as well. Work will not go on forever. Cars can break down. One day, you will want to move out and live on your own. Start saving money from today. This is your first full-time job, which means you will have more money than before. Deposit at least 10% of the salary into a specific savings account. When I say this, please believe me – you will one day thank me for this advice. Continue your education. Just because you have a full-time job doesn’t mean you no longer need to learn*. You don’t necessarily have to choose a university; vocational schools, community colleges, or online training courses can also be helpful to you. If you want to make working in a daycare center your career and make progress in it, then you need to take courses on child development and eventually obtain a degree in early childhood education. Don’t ruin your future for temporary pleasure. I guarantee you have at least one silly friend who will tell you “just this once” that giving up your job is no big deal. This friend is wrong. Work is hard to come by, especially for someone without work experience in a situation like yours right now. If you get fired from this job, you’ll find it even harder to find a new one. In short, things will get better. Work hard and realize that although adults can choose not to eat vegetables if they don’t want to, they still have to work, and anyway most of us do eat vegetables.