I've posted different topics in the travel nursing forum, and get little to no answers, so I thought I would put this here, hoping to get more traffic.
I'm trying to decide if I want to take a travel assignment or not. I've been on a peds hem/onc floor for over a year and a half and I'm so burned out it's crazy! I hate coming in to my job, I'm sick most of the time. It's partly because of the patients I deal with, but mostly all the other CRAP I have to deal with (coworkers, management, etc).
I know very well there is crap everywhere you go, but I have to think that somewhere, people actually like their job. All I do is tolerate mine, and I'm not doing a very good job of that. I NEED a change, I NEED to get out of here. I'm completely miserable.
What's the problem you say? Well, some of my coworkers are giving me a VERY hard time about leaving. I've been told that I'm so young (22 yo) that I don't know how to stick with a job through the good and the bad. They say that at the first sign of trouble I pick up and go. How do they know? This is my first nursing job. A more trusted nurse told me it's completely normal to want to change after about a year or so out of school. Many of my other coworkers feel like I'm taking the easy way out. They want me to go somewhere else and be even more miserable so I'll come back here. Granted, I do work in a very nice hospital, but I'm too young to be unhappy, life is too short.
