I’d like life to be black and white, but ¯_ (ツ)_/¯

I’m a floor nurse, a job incredibly full of egos, passive aggressiveness, picking favorites, openly denigrating you with you present, a job I don’t like. I’m basically wiping up asses, dealing with alcoholics who fight you, washing people with dementia who don’t want to be washed, patients who refuse their meds but in the eyes of the charge I’m the guilty one if I don’t, somehow, make the person take his meds.

I hate it but this job pays my bills and even lets me save for retirement. Coming from a poor background, financial stability is incredibly important to me. I’m in in 40s for reference and not smart enough to study medicine.

It is what it is.

Job I applied for: moving beds, not empty beds but moving patients in beds from floor a to b, or taking them to the OP room, or for any kind of intervention. Everyone doing this job is happy: no floor stress, nobody micromanaging them, they get ample of free time, because they get to choose when to mark the patient as moved, don’t have to wash patients, if a patient refuses transportation they document it and move on, no drama, like when the charge asks you why patient x didn’t do whatever… seems an easy job.

but those 20K per year… (102K vs 81K fwiw)

Is it even worth it? I really hate my job but need the money.

  • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    There are a lot of jobs that legitimately make you miserable and/or sick. Don’t know if that’s the case here though.

    • FenderStratocaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I’ve worked jobs that weren’t easy, sure. I used to teach. That shit was TOUGH. However, your frame of mind changes everything. Like I said, you might not want to hear it, but sometimes the problem isn’t the job. Sometimes the problem is your point of view.