Does anyone love their job

After 11 yrs 8 weeks is a very short time. If the area/sector/workload is suitable then give yourself time to get to know the processes and procedures. Ask foe help if you need it. If anything people will respect you for reaching out.
I left a job after 15 years, loved the new job but the community was toxic, changed pathways, left after 6 months to an 18k paycut but a familiar role in a sector I knew well. I'm really happy and excited for the future. BUT, 1st 10 weeks I felt lost, anxious and really down. Change isn't easy. But give yourself all the help and support you are offered, I think 6months will tell if it's right or not.
Best of luck 👍

I love my job. I find the work interesting, I'm passionate about what I do and feel i'm making a difference. I feel valued and supported by my colleagues, I feel listened to by senior management, and we laugh a lot. I also love that it's PT, term time only, and the commute is 10 minutes door to door, so I have lots of quality time with my DC and a good work life balance. BUT I've had lots of jobs I haven't loved, and a couple I've really hated. Honestly, I think 8 weeks is probably too soon to tell. I would say give it another month at least before you decide it's not for you. It's not unusual for your confidence to take a knock when you start somewhere new as you feel like a bit of a spare part at first, but if your managers say you're doing well then that's a good sign.

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I have thought about it but it's mostly agency around me but the ones that aren't you have to take them out and drive their car and it puts me off massively, it's honestly starts my IBS and I have anxiety attacks, think it's my lack of confidence having to take people out and about

Just a thought on this...if you love working in care, have you thought about a job working for one family instead of an agency? I've got a friend who couldn't settle in an agency or working in a care home but now has a job providing support for a young adult who has a brain injury. She loves it and the pay is better too. Just thought I'd mention it.

I love my job and genuinely enjoy going to work. I'm fortunate enough to work for a cause I'm passionate about so that makes a difference too.

We have our difficulties and politics like most places but the culture is easygoing and flexible and I feel as though I'm making a difference.

It is very early days for you OP and if your manager says you're doing good, then try and hang on to that. Maybe you feel emotional because you're adjusting to the change; new job, new colleagues etc? If the working environment/culture is otherwise good, then give it some more time and see how you settle.

I've never loved a job enough that I would want to do it if I didn't need the money.

Wish I could find the trick to that!

I can’t say I love my job. If I won the lottery, I wouldn’t do it. But I do throughly enjoy it, look forward to going in and enjoy the work and my colleagues. Usually. 😂

But about 3 months in I didn’t. I felt lost. I felt like I was wrong in every area and that I wasn’t able to get to grips with it. I decided I was going to try and get through a year and leave. At about 6 months, I found my stride. And things changed. I started feeling like I grasped the set up, understood how things were expected to be and became more comfortable.

4 years on and I am very happy. Change and a new environment can be really hard.

I love my job. I like my colleagues, the work is interesting, doesn’t take me very long as is quite task oriented so I get a little boost every time I complete something :). I work for a company with a mission and that feels good too. Plus I get lots of free stuff and get to go skiing for work 🤷‍♀️.

I work in care and have been at the same place for 18 yes. Prefer working night shifts, as it quiet most of the time.

Hey 👋
I've recently swapped jobs in the last 3 weeks. I also work in care sector, also feeling the same.

Ive only been working in care for 10 months but wasn't happy with the last care job I had (I did home care, and in that clients home all shift, not bouncing about!). Clients were brilliant and their family were too but wasn't happy with management, so I'm now working in a care home.. which I absolutely hate, I hate it that much that's I've actually asked to go back to my factory job that I left 10 months ago. I love working in care but it's just not for me. I knew I made the wrong choice on my second shift of working in my new job.. 3 weeks in and now hopefully going back to my first job I was at for nearly 8 Years... Maybe the grass isn't greener on the other side🫣

I've had jobs I've loved but it never lasts usually due to changes to role/more pressure/new management. I do love my current job (nearly three years) but I only work part time. I think if I worked fu time I'd be bored.

Change is hard. Give it time.

8 weeks isn't a long time. You need to give it longer to settle in and feel comfortable and confident.

I don't love my job but I love how flexible it is, I love that it's mostly WFH, I love that we make a difference, I love that I travel to the US often and stay in nice hotels for free and I love that they pay more than double my old NHS salary for less work.

I love my job, I'm a teacher in a primary school, I love it but it's hard work and don't live the hours. The school holidays make it worth it for me to see my children though.

I would literally kill for this - you are so fortunate!!

I've been with the same public sector employer for 31 years and it's been endlessly toxic, due to the personalities involved. The work is fine, the collaboration with other managers is good. There's just too many people who have been promoted beyond their level of competence due to years of stagnation, and don't have the first clue how to manage and motivate staff!

The Virgin engineer who sorted out my TV box earlier this week. He grew up in the town, and loves that he's paid to go round all the different areas in town and gets invited into people's homes and meet cats and dogs and talk to all sorts of people and see their homes.

Not enough information to really offer any advice that I’d consider valuable.

How long have you been there?
What is the work (in general terms) -stocking shelves or brain surgery
What is happening that you don’t feel supported?
etc.

No one can make you feel not good enough without your permission. Take control- make a specific plan of how to improve the situation!