Lately I've been very busy working several different jobs. I work weekdays at an insurance office, volunteer for a political campaign, dance on evenings and/or nights, and work at a restaurant. Although the hours and pay at the insurance job are rather small, I consider this my #1 job priority because my manager is paying for me to attend insurance school in January to obtain my licenses for life and property & casualty. Seeing the lifestyle that my manager and coworker live, I think it is safe to assume that there is money in the insurance industry and once I become a fully licensed agent, that I'll be able to make a wage I can actually live off of. I also consider dancing a partial priority, because although it will not lead to a career for me, it pays enough money to allow me to keep my rent paid, maintain my cars, and basically allow me to cover living expenses while also allowing me to build a savings cushion. I took on the restaurant job because I thought I'd make decent enough money that eventually I could stop dancing and pay for living expenses via serving insteada dancing. The political campaign has a lot of potential for job references but admittedly I haven't committed much to it lately because of all the jobs I've been doing.
Now on to the restaurant job. I'm confused, because they haven't made me a full server yet as agreed upon. I do not know if this is because the college boys(who the owner has commented "thinks they're hot shit, God's gift to the restaurant") spoke up more assertively than me about serving, or maybe I'm just not "good enough," or whatever. As a result, I've been making a lot less money than I was told that I'd make. The hours are a bit of a sticky situation, too. I work 4pm-11pm, so although I get out early enough to still hang out at a bar with my friends for a little bit, I have to head straight from my insurance job to this one and as a result I'm often tired. I worked 8 days in a row for Restaurant Week last month, missing the best days money-wise at my club, and then when the owner paid me the next week it wasn't as much money as I'd expected. On the other hand though, I don't wanna burn bridges or look like a "quitter." But then again, I'm sick and tired of making non-career jobs an "investment." By investment, I'm saying that in the past, I've worked all these inconvenient/undesirable shifts, worked for free or practically for free initially, worked with lousy coworkers, all to hope that it would eventually get better. It didn't get better; instead, I would get exasperated to the point of quitting a month later, or I'd eventually get fired, and then feel angry at myself for investing all that time into something that didn't get me anywhere. What do you guys think?
Two of my good friends say that I should quit the restaurant. My one friend says I should focus more on the insurance job, and also that serving is similar to dancing but less money. My other friend says that they've been treating me less than stellar, with keeping me doing "grub work" for less pay, and telling me to work inconvenient Sundays one night ahead of time. On the other hand, my other friend says that I should hold onto it because once I'm a full server, I might be able to make a few hundred per night and it'd be a way to get outta dancing. I have a guy friend who is a server and makes a decent amount. What do you guys think???


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