I'm a labor & delivery nurse. Going on 17 years now and I'm getting burned out. It's very stressful at times but of course it can be wonderful. It's really discouraging that everything comes down to the patient's perception of their care and not their actual care. "I'm sorry I didn't get your ice chips fast enough Mrs. Doe but I was busy saving your baby's life."
Patients are getting more and more anxious and the families...don't get me started on that. It gets old defending my education against Dr. Google.
At some point I'll go to the clinic and leave the bedside. Not quite ready for that yet.
Different departments but yes exactly, all of this.
I am the Standards Senior Program Manager for a not-for-profit in the electronics industry - my main responsibility is managing the volunteers and administrative process for developing technical standards (all technical knowledge comes from the volunteers in the industry). I do love my job even though it is nothing close to what I went to school for. Many people in my position will tell you they kind of fell into their jobs - it isn't something someone decides to pursue a college degree in.
Post by irene adler on Apr 18, 2019 20:19:51 GMT -5
I work at a university in a staff position (technical theatre) I love the hands-on work, one on one instruction, and the constant interaction with the students, but hate the politics part of it (many faculty look down upon staff positions, despite my having an advanced terminal degree) My job is pretty low stress, very consistent time commitment with amazing benefits. I only work 8.5 months a year, which leaves room for 2 side hustles:
I also have a bridal alteration business, which I LOVE. I love working with clients and on beautiful things. I would ditch the university job is a heartbeat to do this full time if I wasn’t so afraid of the risk. I also coach spin classes. It is awesome.
I am a pediatric oncology nurse and have been for about 2 years. I love my job but do have some burnout already as some days can be really hard. I can't see myself leaving though, at least not for a few more years. I think one of the things that I love most about my unit is how well we know the families. Some patients will be on the unit for months, so you really bond with them.
My previous career was in ophthalmology as a tech, I started there because I had a biology degree and no idea what I wanted to do. It was interesting, but I needed more so I went back to school for nursing. I don't regret it for a second.
Interesting that every single nurse who works at the bedside is burned out. Not surprising though.
Did you see the ZDogg video regarding burnout? It's fantastic. I wanted to send it straight to my manager.
I'm going to have to look for it. It's so easy to see why so many nurses are burned out. Long hours, weekends, holidays, and not a lot of support. So much lip service from the hospital but zero action.
Have you guys heard about the breaks bill in Washington? They are trying to pass a mandatory 8 hour day, with ZERO overtime allowed. RNs here are going nuts. I just don't see how this can actually go through, it would be a staffing nightmare.
I used to love all aspects of the job, but did not the last 5 years or so. The testing, data collection, everyone has to be the same, the parents, etc...the only thing I still loved were the kids! I miss them.
I would not rec.. teaching to anyone. The pay is obsurd, the hours never end, the parents are crazy, and everything that goes wrong is your fault. Plus, we all know what the public thinks about teachers, it is degrading.
Did you see the ZDogg video regarding burnout? It's fantastic. I wanted to send it straight to my manager.
I'm going to have to look for it. It's so easy to see why so many nurses are burned out. Long hours, weekends, holidays, and not a lot of support. So much lip service from the hospital but zero action.
Have you guys heard about the breaks bill in Washington? They are trying to pass a mandatory 8 hour day, with ZERO overtime allowed. RNs here are going nuts. I just don't see how this can actually go through, it would be a staffing nightmare.
zDogg is amazing. I adore him. He's very passionate about medicine and he supports nurses; not enough doctors do. You should look him up.
I hadn't heard about the bill. To tell the truth, it's not the 12 hour days that I mind (because working 2-3 days a week is the tits). It's the lack of staffing. We have too many SICK patients and not enough nurses to care for them properly. Even in L&D, I might be 1:1 staffing but I get some pretty sick patients too, that require me to be in their room continuously. My manager is talking about moving ICU-level patients to our unit. And I'm like, lady, if I wanted to be an ICU nurse, I would be an ICU nurse.
I'm going to have to look for it. It's so easy to see why so many nurses are burned out. Long hours, weekends, holidays, and not a lot of support. So much lip service from the hospital but zero action.
Have you guys heard about the breaks bill in Washington? They are trying to pass a mandatory 8 hour day, with ZERO overtime allowed. RNs here are going nuts. I just don't see how this can actually go through, it would be a staffing nightmare.
zDogg is amazing. I adore him. He's very passionate about medicine and he supports nurses; not enough doctors do. You should look him up.
I hadn't heard about the bill. To tell the truth, it's not the 12 hour days that I mind (because working 2-3 days a week is the tits). It's the lack of staffing. We have too many SICK patients and not enough nurses to care for them properly. Even in L&D, I might be 1:1 staffing but I get some pretty sick patients too, that require me to be in their room continuously. My manager is talking about moving ICU-level patients to our unit. And I'm like, lady, if I wanted to be an ICU nurse, I would be an ICU nurse.
Same on our unit. So many really sick kids and nowhere near enough nurses. I have had some sketchy assignments that are just not sustainable. I work 8's because of an injury but had to go part time to do it. I think everyone will quit if they take away 12's, lol. I think they are just doing it so the bill won't pass. No breaks for nurses here, lol. I
I run a steel plant of 100+ people. I have a B of Science and M Mech Eng and over the last 8 years have run a variety of plants but prior work in different support type roles. My current workplace has defiantly been the best in terms of work culture but I don't think I'd redo this career (i dont like people lol). Being a female in these environments has been very isolating and trialling at times.I've had a few men who have changed their perceptions of a woman being able to work in steel for example and that is very satisfying.
I’ve had a very unconventional career path and I grapple a lot with the What Comes Next question. But I have to remind myself that my current job didn’t even exist when I went to college and my next job might not exist at the moment either.
I was at a conference last month and one of the speakers made this very point. Gives pause for sure!
My husband and I experienced the opposite; we both had lucrative careers in positions that have now been made redundant by technology. The jobs we had don't exist anymore. We had to reinvent and diversify, and also accept that what we thought was our future was now in the hands of millenials with iPhones lol.
Software developer. I like it! It can be stressful at times and I am constantly plagued by “imposter syndrome” (I don’t belong in this career, what am I doing, how come I don’t understand this, any moment now everyone is going to realize I’m a fraud..) but overall I find the work to be generally interesting and challenging in a good way.
Also I like that I can make decent money to just sit all day and I rarely need to talk to people
This is so funny, my H is a software engineer, and feels the same way. He's like, I'll never leave this job, at least not until they realize I'm a total fraud and have no idea what I'm doing and they fire me. But...like three promotions later, he's doing just fine I'm often jealous of his job, it seems so interesting, and tech people rarely seem as bogged down by the usual politics of business (red tape, yes, but not politics).
I would not rec.. teaching to anyone. The pay is obsurd, the hours never end, the parents are crazy, and everything that goes wrong is your fault. Plus, we all know what the public thinks about teachers, it is degrading.
I'm 11 years into teaching and I totally agree. In fact, I've been applying to non-teaching jobs and hope to leave the profession in the near future.
We did a thread like this a few months ago and I made a joke about nobody actually reading posts on page 6 and was surprised at the number of likes and comments! It just seems like one of those threads that every one posts but less people read.
I identify as a Higher Education Instructional Designer. My job is more broad than that because I've been promoted up, but that's the work I'm best at and the work I love love love. I'm a teacher at heart, but don't love kids, so this allows me to teach teachers how to teach online. It's grounded in research-based pedagogy so I have to keep up on that, but theres exciting creative elements to it as faculty come up with interesting ways to engage students. I love working with college faculty because by-and-large they're so smart and interesting and passionate about what they teach.
I think ID is a great career path for anyone interested in the process of teaching and learning, but has an organized and creative bent. Also you can work in a wide range of industries, but I love working in higher ed.
“With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent,”
We did a thread like this a few months ago and I made a joke about nobody actually reading posts on page 6 and was surprised at the number of likes and comments! It just seems like one of those threads that every one posts but less people read.
I identify as a Higher Education Instructional Designer. My job is more broad than that because I've been promoted up, but that's the work I'm best at and the work I love love love. I'm a teacher at heart, but don't love kids, so this allows me to teach teachers how to teach online. It's grounded in research-based pedagogy so I have to keep up on that, but theres exciting creative elements to it as faculty come up with interesting ways to engage students. I love working with college faculty because by-and-large they're so smart and interesting and passionate about what they teach.
I think ID is a great career path for anyone interested in the process of teaching and learning, but has an organized and creative bent. Also you can work in a wide range of industries, but I love working in higher ed.
I don't know about anyone else but I'm looking for inspiration lol.
Seriously, I’m a program manger overseeing a portfolio of regulatory activity, mostly promulgation (rule making). Which means I take what Congress tells us to do and turn it into enforceable rules in the code of federal regulations. My background is in behavioral psychology and safety.
I love what I do, I hate management. Today, I was told my career was on the line based on someone’s arbitrary deadline. I am trying to get into statistics and data science, but I’m scared to leave the gov.
I’m a SAHM and can’t wait for my youngest to go to school so I can get out of the house and do something I’d love to volunteer at an animal shelter or rescue. Prior to having kids, I worked in event management for both non-profits and a bio/pharma company (medical conferences and employee training meetings, etc). I loved my job.
By training I am an orthodontist. Most people in my field including me also own and run their own practices. So for a while there I was trying to be a doctor and at the same time grow a business from scratch with no business training beyond some lunchtime lectures and reading glossy magazine. Then I became disabled only 7 years into my career. Since I still owned the business, I took on a lot of the admin roles in the office rather than hiring and training someone else to do them. On a typical day, I will meet the new patients, tell them what treatment they need, deliver the news that the super awesome insurance they think they have pays $0, then help them figure out the math to fit the treatment into their budget. In between I will deal with staffing woes, yell at insurance companies for not paying claims correctly, pay bills, order supplies, run payroll and remind everyone to work more efficiently because no one wants to be sitting in the waiting room. I’ll peek in some mouths in the clinic every now and then but I mostly have other doctors doing that now.
I do like being self employed to an extent but sometimes I crave a job where I would just work with in the rules and get a direct deposit paycheck like everyone else. It’s exhausting being the one to write all the rules and implement them.
I also have a side hustle where I look for embezzlement in other practices. I free lance for the biggest firm in our industry doing this kind of work but I’m not sure if I like it yet because I’ve only done one case so far and the client was irritating. It’s kind of boring but it pays well for being remote. I’m hoping to learn some good stuff in this role so I can add it to the knowledge I have from running my own practice and develop a consulting/speaking career someday when my kids are older.
Post by pinkdutchtulips on Apr 19, 2019 23:34:56 GMT -5
im a litigation paralegal .... 20 years in doing insurance defense. i spent 15 years in private practice living in .1 increments praying to god almighty i'd meet my billables req. I've spent the last 5 in-house, no billable requirement more flexibility than what a traditional firm could offer and a steady stream of clients (i do claims litigation for a major insurance carrier).
i like my job - the work is interesting, i get to do far more legal work than i ever could in a firm and the people i work w are pretty chill. i dont think i could go back to the private practice rat race - especially being a single solo parent w/ no reliable family help.
Post by wanderlustmom on Apr 21, 2019 21:20:37 GMT -5
I’m a licensed clinical social worker in a therapy private practice. I love my job and I earned my dues. I went though another career I wasn’t happy with. I get to help people, listen to their stories and share space with them. I work solo, I like generating referrals and networking. My husband likes doing my tax stuff. I work 3 days a week and it now is lucrative because I don’t take insurance. I do have to work late two nights a week which can be tough with my family schedule. And my work is very stressful. I can never leave my job at the office. But most therapists will tell you that compassion fatigue is worth it for the beauty of a job that is solely clinical. It’s an honor that people trust me with their emotions.
Post by cinderbella on Apr 21, 2019 21:46:37 GMT -5
I am one of two reps that oversee the Federal Employee Program for BCBS in my state. We are nonstop crazy busy from October until the week before Christmas, catch our breath and plan our entire Feb-Sept calendars in January/February, and then spend our days visiting Federal agencies on a monthly/quarterly basis (depending on their preference) and attending conferences and other special Fed events throughout the year.
I left a government job for this position and haven't looked back for a second. I adore it.
Post by doctoranda on Apr 22, 2019 18:00:56 GMT -5
Anthropology professor at a private (non PhD granting) university. I love my job because I really enjoy teaching and doing research. However, I sometimes get frustrated with the whole "publish or perish."