HELP! I don’t know what to do lol

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Hi everyone,

I am about to go into my second year of undergrad and throughout all of high school and my first year of uni, I worked in my cafe job as a barista. Over the summer however, I picked up a summer casual job in a pharmacy as a pharmacy assistant. As well, I got promoted to manager at the cafe and are getting paid significantly more (I promise this has relevance to the story not trying to brag lol)

Now that school is going back, the pharmacy have offered me casual hours throughout the year. This is where my dilemma occurs…

With my uni schedule, I only have to be on campus two days and 1 morning a week. This leaves 4 days and 1 afternoon to work. Originally I was going to work 2 days and 1 afternoon at my cafe job with two designated days off (one of these days dedicated to community involvement or charity work to strengthen my med school application) but with this offer from the pharmacy I was wondering if I should work one of the days I had planned to have off.

My only concern with this is that I might burn out and don’t want to start hating something I am loving pursuing BUT I feel the healthcare environment experience I get from the pharmacy is silly to give up. You might be thinking, I should just quit the cafe job and do the pharmacy. I thought this too but with the increased pay and flexibility of hours at the cafe job, it allows me a bit of financial stability as a broke uni student lol.

So my question is; do I keep the pharmacy job for relevant healthcare experience but risk burnout and damage to my GPA, or do I quit the pharmacy and keep it as a summer casual job and protect my peace?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP

Posted Jan 27, 2026, 1:58 PM UTC

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