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Changing stores

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bubbles

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I work in a pharmacy and for the past 9 months I've been working in a small team, I know who everyone is, and where everything is so I'm comfortable. From Monday for six weeks I'm being transferred to a bigger store not far from where I normally work, but the hours are longer, and Saturday working is longer. I'm very nervous about change and new people, and I can't stop thinking about having to be transferred for the six weeks, I can't cope with the change and I'm thinking of giving up, but I need the job and the money. Does anyone know how to get over an increasing fear of change and new people
 
What I've done in the past when the fear/anxiety becomes overwhelming, is to go to the new place. Much of my own fear of new situations and people is the unknown. Will I get lost, will I arrive on time, will the people who I'm working with get along with me, will I get along with them. What I tend to do if I have time, is become familiar with the new area, as well as the new place.

I'll go and look around, scout out the area, eat nearby several times, walk around the area, have coffee. Sometimes I've gone in to the place I'm going to work, and talked to people a little bit, introduced myself. Have actually in one instance gone to a nearby lunch place at noon, and talked to people who work at the place, hearing their opinions on it. Asking if it's a good place to work. In other situations I've made arrangements ahead of time for a tour of the place before I worked there. Any of these things can help allay the difficulty of change if you do them.
 
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Thank you so much for these suggestions, I have a meeting with my manager tomorrow so I might raise my concerns, but she doesn't know about the aspergers. I think I am over thinking and imagining the worse possible scenario, but like most aspies once you have the thought in your head that it's gonna be hard it won't leave, and i personally prefer complete avoidance but I can't because I need the job and I can't just turn up... It's so difficult and it's making me not be able to sleep properly
 
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