Honesty on resume, now no job.

[gumbi_12]

I'm at a total loss...I'm older, late 40's, I got my license Aug. 2018, left one job and was fired from another one recently. With the 2nd one, I couldn't handle the fast pace of the joint post-op floor, I tried so hard. I put the 2nd job on my resume because I didn't want it to look like I haven't been doing anything. I've been on 3 interviews and 2 phone interviews, and I've been submitting my resume like crazy online. No one is calling except for an addiction treatment center and a nursing home. So I decided to take out my positions. I feel like a failure in life, I really do. What do I do?

[saongiri]

Sometimes the "not dream job" can prove to be a good job anyway. In my opinion you need to land somewhere and stay for a year.If the hospital pacing is too fast look for an office job, home health (maybe? some hire new grads) or nursing home. Every job provides experience (even non ideal jobs) and maybe connections to your next job.

[Persephone Paige, ADN]

On 2/25/2019 at 3:54 PM, Ruby Vee said:

I'm not surprised you couldn't handle a fast paced job as a second career RN. Numerous second career RNs whom I've mentored have told me that they have difficulty with fast paced jobs and with internalizing the urgency of some situations. I'm not sure what causes that, but I've seen and heard that enough times that I'm beginning to believe there's something to it. What concerns me is that you left one job. So now, within six months of being licensed, you are looking for your third job. That's a real problem.

Be willing to accept the nursing home job, if that's an option. You'll get good basic experience that will easily transfer into an acute care position if that's what you want. The addiction treatment center may be appealing because of the hours, and it's fine if that's what you're going to want to do for the rest of your career. But even if you ARE dreaming of addictions nursing, the good basic experience at the nursing home will be more useful in the long run.

Good luck.

It's happening to me now, at age 50. I can do the work, my brain has always been very pliable. It's my body that's screaming at me. God, what I wouldn't give for part-time.

It's always easier to find a job when you have a job. Even if it's only because you're so worn out you just don't notice that no one is calling back.

My advice is to get a job, perhaps one you are not all that interested in and never stop putting in applications elsewhere. At least you will feel like you are taking some action on your own behalf to pursue the jobs you do like. This won't last forever, but apparently it's a right of passage when you are new or have been away from the beside.

Best of luck!

[Kratoswife]

Don't listen to anyone who states to put the job you've been fired from on your resume. Only if it was government you should. Also try a nursing home. You may like it. Good luck don't give up.