NHS workers - do you enjoy your job?

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I’m not far off qualifying as a midwife but honestly find working at the moment emotionally drains me. I feel like a bit of a punching bag at the moment. Please tell me it gets better?

I'm a paramedic, I enjoy it more now that I'm (very) part time. If I hadn't gone part time I would have had to quit.

Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. I feel like my job is worthwhile and like I help people, but I also feel like I am taken for granted and so overworked I can't do things to the standard I want.

It does, you booth find ways to cope and the moments when you are witness to, and support for, people at such vulnerable times in their lives provide job satisfaction like no other

I'm more support services in admin management but I generally enjoy it but since COVID it's been very very stressful

If I didn't have a great team of people to work with it would be grim - we keep each other going.

@Stompythedinosaur I feel like that too! This is a career change for me, I used to do something that was very well paid but I found it soulless and like I didn’t really have a purpose in life. When I started doing this I got real job satisfaction and really want to do good.

…and then I get shouted at because someone wants to be discharged first thing in the morning when I have 9 other women to sort out and I wonder what is even the point? The way some people have spoken to me this past week is with genuine hatred. I feel so fucking deflated.

I left my NHS job 5 years ago because it was a thankless, unappreciated and stressful role. Don't miss it and will never return to it.

Love mine, but I stepped away from the “front line” 8 years ago

I knew it was time to walk away when I was a band 4, worked (unpaid) until 3am to meet a target and was told that I obviously didn’t do my job properly

At least I’m appreciated for the work I do now, and I think I’d probably rather leave the NHS completely (20 years service) than go back to acute