How do I reduce anxiety at work?

[Anonymous]

I have a recently new job I’m 20. It’s as a barista at Starbucks. At the moment I’m always cleaning the tables and helping customers but sometimes when I have to go on the till and it’s busy I get so stressed and make mistakes since I’m worried customers in the line are thinking it’s going slow. And I get scared inside and panick as I know it’s normal as the manager has spoke how he has felt like that but how do I get out of this. I also get nervous to make the drinks sometimes even though I know how too I get anxious customers are watching me and judging. But then again when I go to Starbucks i always watch how it’s made. Is this anxiety I love working and my job it just scares me when it’s busy. I’m great when it’s not too busy.

[Goforit1010]

Do you KNOW how to do the job? If so, just do it, regardless if anyone's watching or not. Your confidence in doing what's right will show. Are ya gonna make mistakes? Yep. Just comes with being human. Hopefully, they will be extremely few and far between.

I used to do "Desktop Support" in IT. People would watch me all the time when I fixed their computer issues. Dud it bother me? At times, yes. If they'd ask why I was doing a certain thing, I'd just explain the steps needed to resolve their problem. Sometimes, it would seem like I was taking the long way to fix it, but my experience taught me that taking a short-cut, seemed to miss something, and caused a "callback" to fix the same problem.

In your job, regardless how busy it is, it still takes a certain amount of time to do the job. It doesn't matter if you have 1 order ready or 10. It still takes that finite amount of time to make a coffee request. Just relax and do the job you know how to do.

[Asker]

No I’m quite new! I’ve been working there for only 9 days

[Emanon25]

Don’t be hard on yourself, soon things will get better.

[driven159]

It takes time to get in the hang of things then things slowdown