I got my first job and already feeling overwhelmed a few days in

I just started my first part time job a few days ago. It was my decision, I wanted to be able to cover my own expenses and my parents had been expecting me to start contributing. But I didn't fully anticipate what it would actually feel like to stack work on top of school, AP homework, and everything else. My boss is disorganized in a way that makes every shift more stressful than it needs to be. I come home already drained and then I still have hours of homework ahead of me. A few days in and I'm already running on empty. I started thinking about what was actually making it so hard. Some of it was the job itself and having a disorganized boss who makes shifts unpredictable. Some of it was the timing, coming home from work and going straight into homework with no real break in between. I thought about whether there was a way to structure my schedule better so the different parts of my day weren't constantly bleeding into each other. I realized that pushing through and hoping it got easier wasn't a real plan. The schedule wasn't going to fix itself and my boss wasn't going to suddenly get more organized. If something was going to change I was going to have to ask for it directly rather than just grinding through it and burning out. We didn't land on a perfect solution but I left with a clearer next step. I'm going to talk to my parents first about what the schedule has actually been like so they understand what I'm dealing with before I do anything else. Then I'm going to ask my boss about scaling back my hours during the busiest weeks of the school year. I don't need to quit. I just need some breathing room and the only way to get it is to actually ask for it.