I was fired from my new job after 3 days. It taught me that mental health is more important than earning money.

• Calli Nguyen, 24, was fired from her job as a director of digital marketing after less than a week.
• Nguyen says mental health and employee respect in the workplace is important.
• She emphasizes Gen Z's unwillingness to settle for toxic work environments.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Calli Nguyen, a 24-year-old social media marketer from Baton Rouge, LA, about getting fired after less than one week of work. It's been edited for length and clarity.

Before I started as the director of digital marketing for a medical spa, I gave my boss the benefit of the doubt because I just wanted a job. What could go wrong?

Turns out, everything.