London Female
Über Member
I've started a new job, I'm not sure I like it but don't know if I just need to give it more time. Day off today and tomorrow and not looking forward to going back on Tuesday.
How long do you give it?
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Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
How long have you been doing ?
guitarpete247
Just about surviving
- Location
- Leicestershire
I suppose it depends on the job, the pay, the hours, the holidays, work colleagues, the boss etc. Do you have anything else to fall back on if you jack it?
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
I tough things out, its often not easy to slip into a new job.
23 years at one comapny and made redundant. I went for a change in career at 42 and boy it wast tough, new company, new industry and new people, starting at the bottom when I'd spent years in complete control of what I was doing. The first three months i could have walked at any time. Im glad I stuck it out, I gained so much.
12 years later, made redundant again and while I stayed in the same industry, working with some managers who were just plain horrible to work for TBH made me want to walk again. Two years later, ive expanded my knowledge base and experience further than I could have dreamed 14 years ago.
It takes time, certainly takes time to gain respect from your colleagues and managers.
I suppose you have to ask yourself, is there anything to gain by sticking at it. If it's a dead end job, either jack, or use it as a stepping stone to something else.....or if it offers something extra, its definately worth toughing it out.
23 years at one comapny and made redundant. I went for a change in career at 42 and boy it wast tough, new company, new industry and new people, starting at the bottom when I'd spent years in complete control of what I was doing. The first three months i could have walked at any time. Im glad I stuck it out, I gained so much.
12 years later, made redundant again and while I stayed in the same industry, working with some managers who were just plain horrible to work for TBH made me want to walk again. Two years later, ive expanded my knowledge base and experience further than I could have dreamed 14 years ago.
It takes time, certainly takes time to gain respect from your colleagues and managers.
I suppose you have to ask yourself, is there anything to gain by sticking at it. If it's a dead end job, either jack, or use it as a stepping stone to something else.....or if it offers something extra, its definately worth toughing it out.
i hate hills
Its my day to be brilliant
Give it a bit longer. I changed jobs from a painter and decorator to a warehouse op and hated it at first. The long and the short of it is everything turned out really good and having been there now in my 17 th year i wouldn't ever want to swap back or change. That said i hope you can work what to do for you as being happy at work is important. All the best Mike.
OP
OP
London Female
Über Member
I've Been there 5 weeks. I've tried to weigh up the good and bad points:
Good:
No night shifts, I hate nights and don't want to do them.
I work 33 hours a week for £6k a year more than I would if I worked full time in the NHS.
Free meals on duty.
It's close to home and I don't need to pay for a parking permit.
Bad:
I have to work long days, 12 hour shifts ( I could live with this if I liked the job more)
All I seem to do is administer drugs
The home is short 2 nurses so we have lots of agency nurses, they will only do the bare minimum. Everytime I ask them to help with something I just get told "sorry I'm agency, we don't do that".
Good:
No night shifts, I hate nights and don't want to do them.
I work 33 hours a week for £6k a year more than I would if I worked full time in the NHS.
Free meals on duty.
It's close to home and I don't need to pay for a parking permit.
Bad:
I have to work long days, 12 hour shifts ( I could live with this if I liked the job more)
All I seem to do is administer drugs
The home is short 2 nurses so we have lots of agency nurses, they will only do the bare minimum. Everytime I ask them to help with something I just get told "sorry I'm agency, we don't do that".
Pumpkin the robot
Guru
If I dont like a job I jack it in. No point hating your work, you spend a long time there each day. I have had 20 jobs in 25 years. I have gone back to 6 places I have worked before because I am good at what I do 
but there is normally a reason why you left in the first place!
but there is normally a reason why you left in the first place!
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
The pro points sound good but are they good enough to outweight the bad ones?
Become an agency nurse ?
Become an agency nurse ?
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Im nearly 30 years in but counting the days
ScotiaLass
Guru
- Location
- Middle Earth
12 hour shifts are awful. No matter what job. Night shifts, I enjoyed - spent 15 years working them when my kids were little.
Administering drugs - evil necessity! We always had two qualified nurses at night and we'd take turns...one night I'd do the tablets and other meds and she'd do the IV meds.
We'd then swap the next night.
Agency nurses (I've worked as one in the past but spent 17 years with the NHS) - that attitude is p!ss poor!
On our ward (acute medicine), everyone needed to muck in.
If an agency nurse said that she wouldn't do something, then as the nurse in charge I would inform our ward sister and she would contact the agency and that nurse would not be booked on our ward again. It's about teamwork and that is just laziness!
I'd give it some time. I moved wards within the same hospital and always hated the change - it took me about 3 months to get into a routine and get to know the staff.
When I left at the end of my shift, I left work behind. Except when I took the drug keys home
OP
OP
London Female
Über Member
I wouldn't like working in a different place all the time. I would take a lower salary for a job I enjoyed though.
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Good point, you need to enjoy your work or rather if you do its a whole lot easier as work does impact on our whole lives no matter what we say or how hard we try to leave it behind.
ScotiaLass
Guru
- Location
- Middle Earth
What type of nursing do you enjoy?
I know that most NHS contracts these days include rotation to nights. Mine didn't as it was signed long before that came into force so I was on permanent nights, which suited me.
