How many of you actually enjoy your job?!

SubSippi · Feb 7, 2015

People who are happy with their situations are much less likely to spend time posting about it online. Keep that in mind. I mean...if you get alone with all of your coworkers, there's not need to come here and ask for advice on how to deal with them.

I love my job and I hate my job, simultaneously. So there's also that option.

xoemmylouox, ASN, RN · Feb 7, 2015

Overall I enjoy my jobs. I love teaching patients and students. I love working in primary care. Seeing patients grow and change is amazing. Sure there are LOTS of difficult patients/families that I cringe knowing I'll have to deal with or students I just want to shake some sense into, but overall I like it. I don't like my employers decisions. One place requires we attend meetings, but doesn't pay me for my time there (I refuse to attend them). The other has decreased my benefit options, increased my out of pocket costs for everything, and BARELY gives me a raise. Yet the CEO & CFO are getting new bonuses and just received a decent raise. Those are the things that weigh on me the most.

Pangea Reunited, ASN, RN · Feb 7, 2015

I like my work, but work is work and I wish it were "happy fun time" instead.

Nola009 · Feb 7, 2015

Working as a nurse is much different than how it was as a student. You students have much more time to spend with the patients, and of course much less stress. My jobs as an RN have been okay, but it's not exactly how I'd envisioned. Do I enjoy my job? I make an effort to enjoy any job I do. If it's insufferable, then I find a new one. All in all, it's just ok.

LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN · Feb 7, 2015

I have learned to transcend my nursing practice to love nursing, more than love my job.

I have worked in dumps-there are out there-and have enjoyed my interventions and interactions with my patient population.

I love to teach pts, nursing students and new nurses; and have done it all; I'm in the process of learning a new specialty and practice, and I go to work with a purpose of success; I also have learned to soak up anything and everything like a sponge and be prepared for anything and EVERYTHING to happen; that keeps me grounded in reality, as well as who I am in terms of responding to changes and challenges.

I look at "what is the best that I can do?" in terms of responding to challenges-practicing mindfulness and advocating for myself has helped me in situations, as well as success in my career.

Remember, nurses do a lot, simplistically speaking; however, the skill set of a nurse is a force to be reckoned with; we have the knowledge and must know what the provider knows and THEN some. We have to advocate and we have opportunities to make policies and have a seat at the table to help with decision making (at least in my experience)

We work hard; we work with the most vulnerable populations, we deal with the most intimate situations, we teach, we must think on our feet and sometimes are exposed to any and everything, and deal with challenging personalities from our patients, their family/significant others to even our peers; as long as you have that reminder to keep you grounded and practice advocacy and empowerment for yourself, along with building what I call the 3Cs: Competency, Consistency and Confidence into your practice, no matter where you work, you will be able to handle any challenge that comes your way.

Best wishes.

Mom2boysRN · Feb 7, 2015

I think that much of what you see here is people that need to vent. It's a place where they can find people who "get it". Our spouses, friends, and other family don't, unless they are also nurses.

That said, I love my job most of the time. I love that I get to help people, comfort people, and do everything I get to do. Some days, I think I would be much better off had I gone in a different direction with my career. Nursing is not all sunshine and rainbows. Nurses work hard, aren't always appreciated for what we do, and some things we have to do are very unpleasant. When I'm having one of those days I remind myself that it's called "work" for a reason and there is a reason I get paid for what I do.

klone, MSN, RN · Feb 7, 2015

Hi All!
I am a brand new nursing student, and I was instructed to join allnurses.com for a class.

How intriguing! Tell me more - what class was this for, and what were the instructions? Just join? Join and look around? Start a post?

Anyway, I LOVE my job. I've always been relatively happy in all my jobs (except one, it was 50/50 and I left after 16 months). But my current job, is by far, the best job I've had. I really truly feel like the things we're doing makes a significant impact on our immediate community, and there's nothing better than that feeling. I love my coworkers, we have FUN and laugh. I look forward to going to work every day, I keep really busy most of the time, and more often than not, I leave work at the end of the day feeling like I've accomplished something.

Anyway, I agree with other posters who say that most of the happy people just don't post about it as much.

I think job satisfaction is a bell curve - there are the minorities on both ends who hate/love their jobs, but the vast majority fall somewhere in the middle.

Editorial Team / Admin · Feb 7, 2015

Hi All!
I am a brand new nursing student, and I was instructed to join allnurses.com for a class.

I find that a bit oddâ€¦.

That being said, I do enjoy my job- most days. There are days (and it happens in every job in every profession) where I wonder why I became a nurse or why I work in the specialty I work in. Thing is, the days that I enjoy my job, I have no need to vent to those who get it- other people in the nursing field, who can be found here. It's the days things don't go well that I need to vent about it. Think about it this way: people are much more likely to complain than they are to compliment. And this community allows for mutual commiseration.

Libby1987 · Feb 7, 2015

I love my job everyday, I don't love the documentation demands but I do it without hating it because, frankly it is work not my holdiay.

NightNurseRN13 · Feb 7, 2015

You have to understand that people will more often complain than they will praise. It's a way to vent. There are some very legitimate posts on here that question whether someone should be a nurse or not, but if you read through the comments it's usually just a normal reaction we have to stressful event's, because well, being a nurse is stressful at times.

I love my job... do I complain? OF COURSE! Who else can us nurses complain to? I think AN has been my saving grace at times letting me know I'm not alone.

Raviepoo · Feb 7, 2015

I hate my job. And there are individual moments at work that make my life worth living. It all comes out in the wash.