Month eight and I'm looking at other postings on my days off
Maya on nightsThe question
I'm not applying yet. I'm looking, and I'm aware the difference is getting thinner every week.
The shifts are fine now, which is the confusing part. Four months ago I couldn't finish a shift without falling behind and I never once thought about leaving. Now I finish on time and I sit in the parking lot scrolling clinic jobs.
Every thread I've read about this says give it a year. Nobody says what the year is supposed to change. So: if you stayed past the wall, what changed, and was it the job or was it you? And if you left at eight months, do you wish you'd waited?
The conversation
2 replies- Chris on the commuteRN, tele, 6 months off orientation
Sitting in the parking lot scrolling is a thing I do too, so take this as company rather than advice.
One thing I'd separate before you decide. Is it the work, the unit, or the hours? For me it was the drive. Forty minutes each way, and I'd been filing that under neutral for six months. Move one of those three and you find out which one was doing it. Quitting moves all three at once and then you never learn which.
- Riley in the break roomRN, ED, 2 years in
Stayed past it. What changed had nothing to do with how I felt about the job. I stopped being the newest person on the unit. Somebody came to me with a question in month eleven and I answered it without checking, and I drove home differently that night.
Give it a year is bad advice said for a good reason. The reason is that the thing which fixes month eight arrives on its own timetable and it looks like somebody else needing you. Nobody says that part because it sounds like nonsense until it happens.
What would you tell them?
Answer from what you have seen. It posts without your name.
