Has anyone here actually quit work?

There is an intrinsic discomfort to that job the first two days. When landmarks and routes are unknown, the brain is immersed in route-disorientation AND job-disorientation. Once you get awareness of routes and the terrain, then the other things like time constraint are tolerable.

It is a predictable pattern: wherever you start, there will be discomfort that fades once the terrain is clear. After that, constraints are far less stressful.

I’m not dismissing your anxiety, just framing it in terms of a larger pattern, which is reliable and happens every city I’ve ever worked delivery: intense discomfort in new place day-one, less day-two, then day-three you can focus on the job itself and anxiety drastically falls.

Clinical anxiety itself may not go down, in terms of a constant repetition of fear-based thinking, but I think therapy and medication is best for that, irrespective of job or no-job.

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