I’m quitting my 40k a year job to become a cocktail waitress

Title prettt much says it all. I’ve been an overachiever, I have two associates degrees and I’ve been working full time since I was 19.

Im now 23 and I’ve been working at a bank for the last year and a half and I can’t stand it. I’ve never hated a job so much in my life. All my coworkers are a lot older than me so I get excluded from a lot of conversations and I genuinely just feel unwanted.

Additionally my VP threatens to fire me Everytime I make a mistake no matter how small it is. I’ve only ever been written up once but im so scared to fuck up, my anxiety has gotten worse and worse with this job to the point where I’ve had to get a perscription for citalopram and Xanax to cope. Where before my anxiety was manageable.

I hate working 5 days a week, my aparment is constantly a mess due to having no time to clean or keep up with anything. I cry going to work and I cry driving home.

So I put my two weeks in this week. And I already ans working a job 3 days a week on the evenings as a cocktail server. Hourly wage is only $7.25 however so far I’ve been making about $20 an hour just with my tips.

I feel disappointed in myself but I mentally can’t handle it anymore. But now that I’m quitting I really don’t know what I want to do with my life…

**EDIT/Update

Thanks everyone for you kind words. They have truly helped me alot.

I would like to make a couple notes however that people have brought up. For one I live in a very economically Poor area, it’s the south and we are basically a town for Flordia retirees who are escaping Flordia. And it’s small so wages are low and so 40k a year is relatively decent for this area. (For example, my dad works at a factory and it took him 10 years to make what I’m making)

And there aren’t a lot of jobs that even pay 40k around here. That’s why quitting freaked me out so bad as I’m worried I cannot find another job in this area with that type of salary (my fiancé and I have thought about moving but it’s currently not in the cards due to some personal stuff)

As for me claiming that I am an overachiever. I apologize if that upset anyone, I think I always thought I was because of the two associates I had before I turned 21 and the fact I worked full time so young as well as worked on certifications to become a tax appraiser at the same time. But I understand an associates doesn’t really mean much anymore unfortunately. I am considering going back to college online for a bachelors.

Thanks again for all the comments they were heavily appreciated