Is nursing for me ?

llg, PhD, RN · Jul 18, 2017

You're not going to like this ... but I think you need to get serious about nurturing a career rather than hop from job to job looking for a fantasy job that you love, pays well, and fits your family needs. Most of us spend our whole lives never getting that perfect fantasy job. What happens in real life is that we find a job that is "just OK" and then we invest a lot of time, effort, tolerance, and patience to make it work for us. You seem to leave a job as soon as you discover it does not match your fantasies.

Yes, your job-hopping looks awful -- so much so that it is unlikely you would be hired by anyone with a really great to job to offer. You will be unlikely to win out over the competition of the other applicants for any job that is really great. So ... you need to stay where you are for a while and invest in making it better for a while. Try to get along with your co-workers and develop a great reputation that will help you get a high quality next job in another year or two. Use the next year to develop a great professional reputation and to look around to figure out the type of job that will work best for you. Then after a year or two, after you have built your resume and developed a strong professional reputation, and earned strong recommendations ... you can pursue whatever type of job you think will suit you better.

It looks like all you have been doing for the last year in your nursing career is finding fault with all your jobs and leaving. It doesn't look like you have accomplished anything positive that would make a good impression on a potential employer. Use the next year to accomplish some positive things that you can use to get hired for something better.

slw2015 · Jul 18, 2017

I agree with you on so many levels I just wonder if nursing is not for me . Before nursing I had years of longevity in the chemistry field and still have many great references from that . Even in chemistry I was ok with things that weren't always perfect. I don't know maybe it just isn't for me

llg, PhD, RN · Jul 18, 2017

OK ... so you liked your chemistry career ... but apparently, you didn't like it enough to stay with it. Think about that. Even though you say you liked it, you still left it. What will happen if you go back to chemistry? Will you like it enough to stay? Or will it not be perfect once again ... and once again, you will leave.

Perhaps you need some counseling to figure out why you are never satisfied with anything enough to stick with it. You sound a little depressed.

slw2015 · Jul 18, 2017

If you read my initial post my reason for going into nursing was to be able to do clinical trials for a pharmaceutical company .

llg, PhD, RN · Jul 18, 2017

If you read my initial post my reason for going into nursing was to be able to do clinical trials for a pharmaceutical company .

That was you hope ... but why did you want to leave the chemistry job you already had?

Orca, ADN, ASN, RN · Jul 18, 2017

If you read my initial post my reason for going into nursing was to be able to do clinical trials for a pharmaceutical company .

You went into the profession for the wrong reason. My experience has been that when pharmaceutical companies hire nurses, they have years of experience in the field. They are not fresh out of nursing school, or a year or two in. Targeting a specific job is seldom realistic.

As far as your spotty work history, you would probably not be hired by one of my interview panels. We look very closely at work history. If someone has had a lot of jobs in a fairly short period of time and none of them were promotions, there is generally an issue - either the employee can't commit to the job, or has difficulty accepting supervision, or some other issue. We don't hire people who are unlikely to stay.

slw2015 · Jul 18, 2017

Because wity a bachelors in biochemistry I had to make a choice in order to go further in the science field ...my choice was to become a nurse so I could do research and clinical trials at the same time. That's the part of nursing I am most interested in

slw2015 · Jul 18, 2017

That's interesting I still get offers . Most recently cardiac icu and cosmetic surgery. Most people seem to be more interested in the fact that i was a chemist than what I've done in nursing. I do want longevity somewhere for sure, but it hasnt affected anything thus far.

Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN · Jul 18, 2017

Do you have any connections in the clinical trial world?

OrganizedChaos, LVN · Jul 18, 2017

That's interesting I still get offers . Most recently cardiac icu and cosmetic surgery. Most people seem to be more interested in the fact that i was a chemist than what I've done in nursing. I do want longevity somewhere for sure, but it hasnt affected anything thus far.

What an attitude you have there.

You may get offers but not the offers you want & you may never get the offer you are longing for if you continue to job hop & don't settle job into one job for more than a year.

Trust me, I have job hopped as an LVN & it bit me in the orifice.

Zyprexa · Jul 19, 2017

Try to get an entry-level research position (non-nursing), and work your way up from there.