There are many threads related to the stressors of our jobs and all the hoops we go through to do what we do every day-vents are a way to relieve some of that stress(not knocking vents).
I just wanted to say how fortunate I feel to have a job that I like 99% of the time, I work with great patients and staff , the staff (mostly) feel they have a positive impact on others. Able to pay my family's bills and enjoy some extras for my family every now and then too.
Several of my friends have jobs or businesses that are going through tough times and are needing to find other/additional employment so they can afford health insurance and day to day necessities.
What makes you feel fortunate about having your job as a nurse?:redbeathe
Specializes in Trauma Surgery, Nursing Management.
I feel fortunate that I am healthy enough to work in this demanding field. I am lucky that I have a supportive husband who is also in the health care industry that can help me work through management issues and can relate to my frustrations. He also offers a different view to problem solving. He has been my God-send, and I am so grateful that God recognized him as my missing puzzle piece.
I am fortunate that I have a secure job that has unlimited potential for OT should I need to make more money for our deep sea fishing trips.
I am grateful EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. that I am in the position to learn something new from my patients, co-workers and surgeons. I am thankful that the surgeons that I work with both respect me and trust my work.
I am blessed that my parents instilled a powerful sense of right and wrong in me at a young age, while cautioning me at the same time that I should never see things simply in black or white.
I am fortunate that I don't have to live paycheck to paycheck. I have been there before, and the worry just about did me in. I am blessed with a beautiful place to live that allows me to remember WHY I work so hard.
I am so lucky that I have co-workers who are willing to do any case that they are asked to do. I am fortunate to have a wonderful boss who supports me and offers me tips on how to make my day more bearable when my patience starts to unravel.
And lastly, I am fortunate to feel comfortable with all of you, knowing that you can relate to issues that I bring up, questions that I have, or simply tolerating my silly posts. You guys mean a lot to me!
I really love the strategy of one counting one's blessings :) My belief is that happiness is a choice and that we can choose to focus on the positive rather than the negative :) I dont believe in sticking ones head in the sand mind you, but you guys get it Great post thank you!!
I have a slightly different point of view in life but smililar. I have lived my life like this since I was a teenager. I had an interesting string of events that changed my philosophy between the ages of 16 and 19 including 4 very near death experiences, watching a couple of friends get shot in front of me, watching a 16 y/o sister of a friend get crushed by a suburban going 65 and side swiping her(I got to hold her while she took her dying breaths, didnt recognize her at the time until her family showed up on scene)... couple of more things in there too.... Had a rough family/youth before those years, started drinking at 13, smoked my first joint at 9 or so..... I continued to 21 drinking very heavily and daily use of LCD/mushrooms/ecstasy.... I ate everything in sight and didnt have the metabolism to suport it so I went from 240 lb football player in highschool that was in great shape to a 370+ lb daily drug user/heavy drinker.
I dont know what happened one day but I was sitting with some friends in a pizza joint in south padre island TX and got up without saying anything. I walked across the street and got my tongue pierced. With my swolen tongue I was not supposed to drink beer or eat anything solid for a week or two.... I lost 30 lbs in 2 weeks..... I kept it up for a couple of more weeks just doing a liquid diet, lost another 15. After this I was down to about 330-340 lbs. I started riding my bike everywhere and not using my truck, started hitting the gym too. This continued until after 9 months I had dropped 150 lbs and was around 225 lbs.... this is very lean for me..
I ended up meeting my now wife that same year and we moved up to Austin... I kept working out and riding as much as possible while going to school(I re-enrolled in college too) and work. Kept my weight between 220-250 for 4-5 years but got tired of eating salad/tuna/chicken diet only.... no way to live.... lol. We ended up having our son(she had two daughters too) and getting married when I was 23. I now maintain between 290-300 lbs, I try to keep in cardio shape by playing sports with my son and bike riding 3 or 4 days a week.... I just cant go back to eating 1200 calories a day... That is what I have to do to loose weight, to maintain I have to eat 1500, no more than that.
Anyway, back on point.... What I feel fortunate for... I feel fortunate that I wake up every day and take a breath of air. I feel fortunate to be able to take my son to soccer practice/games all week long, go for bike rides with him, go snowboarding with him, be his guide through life and showing him the best time possible while getting to experience things with his parents that 99% of kids dont get to do.
I feel fortunate to have a great wife to look forward to seeing every day(even if she is upset or POd cause work sucked and other people are mean). I love showing her the world also and making our way through life together exciting with travel and fun is great. I love having someone that loves me for the person I am(sarcastic pain in the rear sometimes).
I feel fortunate to have helped raised her daughter(mine too at this point) to be a good person. She is 18 now and more responsible than most adults I know. She is caring and good hearted in nature. I have known her since she was 5 and tried to be as good to her as possible and treat her like my own(I was a stepkid too and know that it is difficult and sucks sometimes).
Work.... I am happy to have a job but honestly I would dig ditches, work in a drivethru, load lumber.... whatever it takes to make enough money to live a decent life with my family. Titles and job status means nothing to me as long as it is EMPLOYEED...... I am happy with a house and two legs to get me to work.... All of the extra stuff is nice but not necessary... I am happy to have all the superficial crap but my FORTUNE is in my family and the people I have chosen to surround myself with..... I would give up all of it to keep my people...
Dont take any of that the wrong way... I am quite happy to be an RN but it was through a very good work ethic, rasing kids, working two full time jobs and paying all our bills on time that got me to where I was.... There was no fortune or luck involved in getting here, actually there was quite a bit of misfortune and bad luck along the way that made me keep my head down and plowing on in life to get here.....
Great post thank you!!
Otessa, BSN, RN
1,601 Posts
Thank you for your fortunate thoughts!!!