Story of a barista as a middle aged man

For the past two years, I worked part-time as a weekend barista at a Starbucks at Harris Teeter. I worked there for extra money while my wife was a full-time student with no income. I averaged about $500 a month. Eventually I decided it wasn't worth it because it tired me out and made working overtime at my full-time job more difficult. Considering that my full-time hourly rate was around five times greater than what I was making at Starbucks, I decided that it was probably costing me money to work there. Hopefully the experience of working in a retail environment gave me some valuable experience. Certain things about the job really bother me. I really did not like having a manager draw up a schedule of my hours. Sometimes I opened, sometime I closed sometimes I was mid-shift. I'm using to have set business hours and deciding for myself if I needed to come to work early or late. I also wasn't thrilled about having manager nag me if I didn't look busy enough. Constantly wiping the counter got boring pretty quickly. Also for some reason I was always given the longest shifts on the weekends, usually 8 or 9 hours while others often worked 4 or 5 hour shifts. However, I did enjoy getting to know a lot of the regular customers and learning about Starbucks was kind of interesting at first. However, I don't think I'm going to get a job like that again anytime soon. I didn't have the life changing experience that some have had. I belong in an office, in front of a computer, not in a grocery store.

The weekend

I woke up this morning with a headache and couldn't get out of bed until 6:30 am. As a result I spent two hours in traffic trying to get to work. I need to leave the house by 5:30 in order to get there in an hour or less. The weekend was very stressful because I was at home with my wife and mother-in-law so every five minutes they were nagging me about something. I quit my weekend job a couple of weeks ago. It was exhausting working for 8 or 9 hours a day during the weekend after working and commuting during the week but the stress of being at home is pretty bad too.