Should I walk away from this job?

[Anonymous]

I’ve been working this job for a little over a year now and at first it was just supposed to be a temporary thing before I went back to college. It ended up with me staying and I just transferred to the university near my home.
Over the course of a year I’ve met some cool people but it never goes beyond work relationships. A few of them my age have gone and hung out and follow each other and stuff like that. I’m very to myself but I’m nice and I talk when I’m spoken too and I’ll make small talk sometimes. I don’t have many friends.
I’ve been told I’m pretty a lot not every day but sometimes I think I rely on being told for validation which I know is bad. One of my managers has told me multiple times.

People speak when they see me or say hi which is pretty standard but no one takes it past that. There was this one girl who was above me who always told me she cared and we had something but she left and I hate working there without her.
This girl who always kinda talks to me and is super quirky always says hi to me and today she asked who was working tomorrow. I told her I was and another woman said she was too. She went on to say that she was alone and that at least she had Mary who’s my other coworker. That kinda hurt my feelings especially because we’ve talked. Tbh I’ve been kind of short with her lately and don’t speak to her first but still.
I kinda feel undervalued here. I’m a college student and I plan on leaving after graduation but I feel like no one makes the effort to get to know me outside of work or be friends and I sometimes feel invisible. I haven’t even gotten a happy birthday.
What should I do? I kinda am starting to feel miserable because a lot of people left the job including the girl I liked but I’m still holding out hope she’ll come back one day.

[RavVid]

A lot of people want to keep work relationships at a professionally friendly level. Friendships can come out of it but a funny thing is that once you lose the commonality of the work place there is nothing there.

The girl you liked is that liking as a friend or potential partner? I don't think you should wait for her to come back at all.

[Asker]

As a partner

[RavVid]

Don't. If she thought the same way she would suggested exchanging numbers so as to catch up. A-wishing and a-hoping only works in romantic comedies.

[Asker]

Things happened between us and it was a long story. She told a mutual friend / coworker before she left that she thought I hated her. Plus I have a partner and she knows.

[Asker]

And she came to visit so maybe she thought she would see me again

[RavVid]

Unless you like a complicated life I think put a line under it.

[Tyrael]

If the job is decent and pays well enough then you should stay. It's a means to an end, not a social scene. Find some hobbies outside of work and get to know prior away from there. Ride it out until you graduate.

[Tyrael]

Get to know people*

[WhitneySnow]

You should stay til you graduate. You don’t hate it and work isn’t supposed to be a big social scene (or so I’ve been told tbh I never had a job before). But yeah you should def stay.

[In_Trance]

find a different job