My summer jobs throughout high school and for a brief time afterwards were in construction. After a few years of working and travelling on/off it became time to "settle" a bit. I was throwing around ideas and tried to make a few things happen but nothing panned out. My dad is self-employed contractor and always recommended against it as after working 10 hours having to do paper work in the evenings and weekends sucked. 

So a year and a bit ago I got a job with my dad's friend. It's a really great opportunity, I'm apprenticing to be an electrician and he got me into the union which is fairly difficult to do and sought after position. 

I'm just in my final phase of schooling and go back to work soon. Problem is I have a strong desire to quit. As much as I loved construction, I realized I loved working outside with my friends and beer doing 'satisfying' work... Not in a dirty building doing menial and labouring work. I also work on websites for friends and have been wanting to give that a try, I also have a sales job lined up that could be promising. 

As stated my current employer is a family friend and I'm worried about how this will reflect on me and my family. I really don't want to burn any bridges. Just thinking about going back to work has given me a ton of stress and anxiety. I barely knew what anxiety was before this. But another few years in that job will suck my soul out of me. I feel like I need to at least try giving the other job a shot before going back.

I'm not too close with my parents in the past few years (unrelated) and have been struggling on how to bring this up to them and the employer. My employer is very old school and will probably call me 'lazy' lol but I don't care about that, only that I'm appreciative of the work and he is a family friend so I don't want to leave any friction.

Thoughts?
user
Want to quit my current job to be a part time electrician, but don't want to burn bridges and
assistant
My summer jobs throughout high school and for a brief time afterwards were in construction. After a few years of working and travelling on/off it became time to "settle" a bit. I was throwing around ideas and tried to make a few things happen but nothing panned out. My dad is self-employed contractor and always recommended against it as after working 10 hours having to do paper work in the evenings and weekends sucked. 

So a year and a bit ago I got a job with my dad's friend. It's a really great opportunity, I'm apprenticing to be an electrician and he got me into the union which is fairly difficult to do and sought after position. 

I'm just in my final phase of schooling and go back to work soon. Problem is I have a strong desire to quit. As much as I loved construction, I realized I loved working outside with my friends and beer doing 'satisfying' work... Not in a dirty building doing menial and labouring work. I also work on websites for friends and have been wanting to give that a try, I also have a sales job lined up that could be promising. 

As stated my current employer is a family friend and I'm worried about how this will reflect on me and my family. I really don't want to burn any bridges. Just thinking about going back to work has given me a ton of stress and anxiety. I barely knew what anxiety was before this. But another few years in that job will suck my soul out of me. I feel like I need to at least try giving the other job a shot before going back.

I'm not too close with my parents in the past few years (unrelated) and have been struggling on how to bring this up to them and the employer. My employer is very old school and will probably call me 'lazy' lol but I don't care about that, only that I'm appreciative of the work and he is a family friend so I don't want to leave any friction.

Thoughts?
user
Want to quit first job out of college, scared to, don't give a fuck about the other job.
assistant