By the time someone heads off to college, they most likely have had at least one part-time job--and more than likely, they’ve had one they did not enjoy. Granted, the whole point of a part-time job is to simply make money, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun along the way.
Sometimes people get lucky and get a great first job. They love the people and the atmosphere, and getting to make money while having fun is just icing on the cake. But sometimes they get a job they absolutely hate. The hours are long, the environment in itself is awful, and you just spend the whole time staring at the clock waiting to go home.
But there are ways to remedy a situation like that. Just because the job in itself is bad does not mean everything has to be a disaster. The main way to remedy a bad job is to make your own fun and your own memories, and a main part of doing that is the people around you: your co-workers.
The people you work with are the main element that’s going to make or break your job. If you have people working with you whom you can’t stand and everything overall is a disaster, it may be time to get a new job. But if the people around you are in the same boat as you and you all get along, there may be a way to salvage a bad situation.
These are the people you can complain to about everything at work, because they were either right there with you or had the same situation happen before. You can make your own fun if your job isn’t the best too. You can play games to pass the time, pull pranks, and at the very least create a bond through being annoyed at the same things.
You can even make memories outside of the workplace, too. Chances are you all spend a lot of time together, so you’re more than likely to become close friends. You can all go out for food after that long shift you thought would never end, hang out on the weekends, and wait for each other to get off shift to hear about the awful (or maybe great) day you both had at work--not to mention the immediate happiness you feel getting to go out and spend money right after you get your weekly paycheck.
You and your co-workers are going to have to spend a lot of time together whether it’s at work or out, so it’s better to be able to get along so the whole situation isn’t terrible altogether. To my co-workers, thank you. Thank you for being my friends and for always listening to me complain. I’m so thankful for you coming into my life and making a bad situation turn into wonderful memories I can always look back on long after I’ve left the job. But most importantly, thank you so much for being so much more than just co-workers, and for helping me see the good in the bad.
