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.
The grass might not be greener and maybe you should keep the better paying job, but you should keep in mind that living a life filled with stress is like eating a little poison evey day. It’s not a huge deal, each individual dose, but it adds up.
Stress hormones do their own damage, but also - when my mental health sucks, I don’t bother to put on sunscreen. I don’t eat right. That adds up, too. Of course when money’s tight, you can’t avoid stress. But even if you don’t change jobs now, you should probably be looking to change something soon. You’re at an age where the consequences of that stress will start to pop up. Me too.
I don’t know if you should take the new job, but I do think you should consider your mental health a high priority. Under money, maybe, but other people have given good advice here on various pros and cons to consider with that.