I have been at this place of work for about 4 months. It’s fine, but it’s not a career. I’m also in a band which is extremely important to me.
My band have been offered the opportunity to go and play in Australia which means I will need to leave for 2 weeks (bearing in mind I just had 2 weeks off to tour the UK). I’m not NOT going to do it… I don’t particularly care about this job, I will get paid enough from the gig to cover my bills and, as they say, you miss 100% of the chances you don’t take.

But I cannot for the life of me get over my anxiety to tell my boss. I know I will be made an example of, berated, sent to disciplinary meetings and my mental state can’t cope with it. I don’t know how to approach it. I’ve been over thinking this for the last month to the point of having full blown panic attacks every time I’m about to talk to him about it. 

Any advice to pull my head out of the sand?