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I wish I had the answer to that. I didn't get fired from my job because it was a paid work study and professors wouldn't fire a student unless they were being disrespectful or breaking the law. That being said I had labor intensive job and I was also the only female and already viewed as too weak and it was me trying to prove myself, but instead getting injured and/or messing up. The following semester I switched from scene shop to costume shop. Was constantly disappointing my supervisor for not bring quick enough or having to redo a costume. Also high stakes, high stress, and high speed for this job as was the scene shop. Theater department can be like that especially around opening night.

I had several positions between volunteer and paid work. And i had the same problems as you throughout. Although i excelled eorking at the daycare and highly enjoyed ut, i would say that was the one job thst could have been less stressful and less speediness of tasks if my supervisor was not greedy (theres more to that too)

All my jobs I had some satisfaction out of them and like you I've learned a lot, but like you I wonder if there are jobs out there that are less stressful and allows for a learning curve. That I would say may be possible. I imagine certain self employment/entrepreneurial options would be that way but that's not to say that has problems of its own too. And it may mean sacrificing other things. It may mean less income or inconsistent/unpredictable income and it may mean working longer hours than the average work day.

On the other hand my aunt is a professor and researcher and she told me this semester she isn't teaching and only doing research and she loves the uninterrupted blocks of time she has all for herself.