Feel like I've made a huge mistake- do I have to stay?

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Ok so I work in nursing, a very specific field.
One stable role for 8 years. Then undertook a postgraduate certificate related to my specialism (seconded for a year), and loved it. Came away with a distinction. So far so good.

I returned to the same service, in a senior role. Then a unique opportunity came up in a similar field, at a higher band. After 8 months in my senior role I left and took up this new post.

It represents a big step forward professionally, but it feels miserable. It's a lonely role, and very finance oriented which feels soulless. I feel stretched daily out of my comfort zone 😞. I feel like it's going to consume my life, and will impact on my children (who are young). It's full time, which is more than I wanted, but it felt like too good an opportunity to pass up.

My question is, would it be foolish to leave? I am concerned at how my CV would look with such a brief stint in a senior role. Do employers take a dim view of these situations? I can DO the job, I'm just not sure I want to. A post has come up in my previous field and it feel like it would be so much more comfortable and enjoyable.

Would appreciate any thoughts.

I should add- I've only been in this role since the start of August! Oh, and the job that has come up my previous service is fewer hours, term time only. Which would have huge advantages.

As long as your cv isn’t full of short term jobs and you can rationalise why you moved it should be ok? I’m not a recruiter or a manager though so maybe I’m wrong

Move if you want to and just gloss over it on your CV in the future.

Or be honest with your boss and see if they can accommodate a different working pattern?

Sounds like you are successful and sought after so I wouldn't worry about long term detriment to your career.

Take the job you want . The fact you slept two months in your present role will soon be lost in your cv .
Happiness is more important.

Slept ? !
Only stayed !

🤣 Trumpton. I can't sleep, that's the problem!!

Thank you all 😊

Is your long term goal to work in this kind of role? I assume not if you want to leave it already!?

It is pretty normal to feel overwhelmed after only a month in a new job. I think it usually takes about six months to really feel settled and at home enough to tell if it is the right/wrong role or if your feelings are just about the adjustment period.

I agree go for it. If you get it then no issues that you’ve been in this role such a short time. If you don’t, then you’ll naturally get longer in this role on your CV. Think very carefully how you’re going to explain your decisions at interview - I would literally practice out loud many times over (in the car is good for this!) your theoretical answers to questions you worry would be tricky to answer so that you can confidently answer it and not say it on a way you regret in the actual interview. I called a recruitment agency to say I’d made a mistake 2 weeks into a new job once so could they start looking for me again. I felt so embarrassed but they were so unphased. Be truthful whilst portraying yourself positively.

I think apply for the old job. By the time your get an offer, you'll have stayed long enough in the new job to have a fair idea what it's like.

Good jobs on paper don't necessarily make you happy, follow your heart.

Unless there are particular rules on this in your profession, you could just miss three two month job off your CV, by putting start and end dates in years not months.