Stress Center Peer Support

I got a new job about three weeks ago. I have been a stay at home mom for seven years before that. The job I got is at a convenience store at the corner of my street. I hate this job. It is so stressfull and anxiety producing that my stomach churns everytime I leave for work and it continues to ache through my shift. Its constantly busy and to tell you the truth, customers are rude and mean. Everything behind the counter is completely unorganized and messy..so much so that I tripped over a plastic bin the other day trying to get to the lottery machine. I would like nothing more than to quit this job, it is only minimum wage. But, we cant afford to live on one income anymore. I have been sending out applications to places for the past few months and this is the only call back I have got. I have extensive experience in manufacturing, quality controll and shipping and recieving...but all the factories here are closing down. When I tell my husband about my feelings toward the job all he says is that he sometimes hates his job too. I dont "sometimes" hate it...I completley hate it all the time. I try my hardest to be positive and let most of what happens there roll off my back, but its impossible. I am afraid to quit because my husband will be angry and think I am a baby, but I dont see how I can keep on working there.
Ive gone through the program twice and I cant seem to use the coping skills to make my job less stressfull. I guess I just dont know what to do at this point.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Or if anyone here works in customer service that can offer me some advice on how to deal with the job I would appreciate that too.
Thanks.

Jobrelated anziety
1. company downsizing.. and what is disgusting is I have been in my department (school district) the longest, (10 years) ( but it is how long you have been with the company that counts, That out of 20 in my dept, put me in #3 to be transferred out of my position. The person who came to my dept 5 months ago would stay.
2 if I am transferred out... or maybe even if I saty, my 12 month salary may be reduced to 10 months.. 1 a big loss in salary
3 let's make the salary thing a little worse... in the world of education each year your raise for experience bearly covers the cost of the family health insurance costs... so in some wsys you never get a financial raise. BUT at your 11th year and 21 year you get substantial raises (12%). Well I am due my 21 year BIG RAISE. Were talking @10,000. Well guess what... the financial condtion of the school district (like everywhere else) is bad and the likely hood we will not get our experience increase... so beside loosing 2 months salary, I amy not get my raise

Job realated STRESS!!!!!

To stay on topic of this thread I will detail into other stressors, family health, and legal issues (lawyers mak an hour what it take me 2 days to earn)!

Stress! And one of the statments in the tape/video basically said I should ignore it all, and want less?

Reen, I know how you feel. I had a job from October till April that I hated more every week. It started out ok but the stress got worse and the sales got lower and the expectations were too high and we were short-handed, etc. I quit before I ordered the program because my anxiety and depression were getting bad. I don't know if the skills in the program would have made a lot of difference. I was already writing down my thoughts and trying to deal. I suppose they would have helped but they would not change a bad situation into a good one. I have now been out of work about 4 weeks. Tax returns and the rebate have helped and my expenses are low. i am starting to have more stress about not looking hard enough, etc.
I wish you well. Come visit the chat room. take care.

I was in a customer service job about 3 years ago that was ridiculous. For what little they paid you, the expectancies were set so high for your performance that stress was seen as part of the job (!) They monitored each call you took from clients and they critiqued you on every voice inflection and expected you to log a huge amount of information in specific ways while taking no more than 10 seconds between calls. And for what?

I had to deal with nasty types on the phone quite a lot and one perspective that helped was knowing that I wasn't really getting paid enough that I should care. That sounds like a bad attitude but in fact it was an accurate one. So maybe try to see this minimum wage job as a way to make needed funds and try to not personalize any part of it. Just work your shift, let the rude ones come and go and then get out. If your employer wants you to care then let them pay you to care. Otherwise, what is it all really worth? Take care!