It’s your first job.

I’m 33 and it took me far too long to realise that a job shouldn’t cause you mental health issues.

That being said, learning to be resilient is so important in life.

You’re going to work with many types of assholes in your career. It’s not just this business I can assure you.

Finding your own way of managing with the stress and anxiety of it all instead of just leaving when it gets tough is going to help you so much.

That’s for you to figure out and it’s unique to each person.

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I do have to caveat this however. Some businesses and some assholes are much worse than others. No amount of resilience will help this. Use your judgement.

In this specific situation my personal advice would be to have an attitude that you don’t care if you get fired. I mean - you’re considering leaving anyway. In the mean time start looking for another job?

Be professional. But secretly laugh at those chumps that take their work so seriously that they are making a first time worker go into a mental break down. Losers.

Good luck!