Exactly this. It wasn’t until my second month that I started to like the job. Before that I absolutely hated it. Starbucks as company (and therefore all of the managers and shift supervisors) pushes the idea that we have to be extremely fast at our job. Which is obviously hard to do when you’re new and still learning how to make drinks, let alone sequence properly. I will definitely vouch that it gets easier once you get a good hang of all the positions. I’m not saying good enough to be speedy Gonzalez fast, but to at least feel like you know what you’re doing in order to not be asking for help constantly. That was my problem anyway. I hated feeling like I was slowing everyone down by having to stop them and ask them how to make a drink or how to make stuff for prep.

At the end of the day though, your mental well-being is key, and if you don’t feel like sticking it out to see if it gets better for you, then quit. I had to do that at my last job, and all though I felt bad for leaving after only working there for six months, it was the best thing I ever did for my mental health.

ok let’s maybe not tell people experiencing bad anxiety to suck it up lol, sharing ways to cope with it and take care of themselves would’ve been a lot more helpful