I've worked in sales for 10 years and as an aspiring musician I was dying to teach music or playing music full time for once. I found a job near me for the front desk at a Music school. I somehow managed to get the job, And I was the most experienced sales person they ever hired. For a bit, we were all happy and it was mutual.
I started going through some personal things, And it was impacting my job so I enrolled in therapy and got a prescription for escitalopram and it helped at first, but every few months I would have a conflict with someone, or share my opinion on something I disagreed with alotta.. emotion. We abruptly lost a lot of teachers this holiday season and there were a lot of question marks on what was happening with some programs. A teacher came up and chewed me out for enrolling a student on their schedule for a day they closed but we didn't the update. I expressed my dissatisfaction of this on my end of day report and that was the last straw for them and they fired me at the end of day yesterday. No final paychecks or anything.
I'm pretty torn because I got do the coolest thing ever in my opinion. I got to be the connection between the community and incredible music teachers. I got to do a ton of cool stuff. I learned so many neat things getting to work with musicians of all different backgrounds. I wish I had done better with de-escalating myself but it feels like my brain just goes on autopilot and I can't help it
I guess now I will file for unemployment and apply to all the sales jobs that dont sound too awful. I have no savings and tons of debt and expensive rent so I only have the weekend to get over it.
Thanks for letting me share beehaw.
Not to lay blame at your feet as it sounds like there's more going on there than just you venting.
That venting is the only part over which you have control. Never vent at work.
You can be disappointed something didn't work, or is broken, but the only response at that point is to look for how to resolve/prevent/mitigate."Yea, this is annoying, any ideas on how to prevent?"
Again it really seems lots more was going on outside of you (losing teachers? Not a good sign), and perhaps they were looking for a reason to let you go, and perhaps this has been on their radar for some time but wasn't useful until now.
Source: been in exactly your shoes, twice. I can see my part in it both times, but in the end they were looking to let me (and others) go anyway.
Yeah the teaching work environment matters a lot. It can get really toxic quickly and then everyone is out for blood instead of trying to support students.
Thank you, I do think you are right that they were looking to let me go for a while. I could feel the shift in our relationship. The two other people I worked with are super pissed and think that they are about to clean house anyways, which it looks to be going that way. I hope they just sell the school to someone else, it's clear they don't want it.