I already don't like my job and i haven't even started.

[NurseCard]

So, after being unemployed since August, except for agency work, I finally have a new, full time job.

I'm working 7am to 3pm, M-F, no weekends, but I have to work holidays. Pretty sweet

hours, IMO, especially since I'm SICK of working nights.

The problem is that I'm in a nursing home, and I've already found out that the staff

I'm going to be working with are a surly bunch.

I'm trying to stay positive, pray, remember that I'm there for the residents and not

for my coworkers...

I know a lot of people have been in this position, having to accept a job that they already know is probably not their dream job by far. It just sucks when you've been a nurse for nine years, and still having to settle for the bottom of the barrel.

Again, I really have been trying to be positive, but I wonder if my husband is right... being positive doesn't work, instead, always expect the worst, and that way when things aren't as bad as you thought they would be... you are happy!

[Lynx25, LPN]

Wellllll... if a new nurse came in thinking that working at my facility was the bottom of the barrel, I don't know how well we'd get along either.

[NurseCard, ADN]

This facility has been shut down and is on the state's

"special focus list"... or something like that.

I'm normally a positive person, really I am, but I also

let the people around me get me down way too much.

Today was a good day though! I had a great preceptor

and I enjoyed myself. I'm taking one day at a time and

enjoying each new day as it comes.

I think it helps too that I'm finally off of night shift..

after 13 years!!!!!