So I hate my job, and I have seen another one but ............................

[mosschops30]

I think it might be de-skilling and that if I went there I might never get out.
Am currently working as a newly qualified nurse in Critical Care, been there almost 3 months, I find it hard, busy, stressful, unfriendly. Sometimes I love it, but mostly I hate it. But I think its so specialised and exciting that nothing will ever come close and that I wont ever be able to leave for a more 'exciting' job

Have seen another job working in maternity as a nurse providing anaesthetic, scrub and post operative care to women having cs.

Although it sounds nice, I worry that I would lose my nursing skills and would only be good at doing theatre stuff, whereas in critical care we are skill wizards. Plus I wonder if the midwives would be difficult given that youd be nurse trained rather than mw trained.

Any advice would be good

NO advice, but can empathise with loathing job at times.

If I were you I'd talk this through with trusted colleague. Can you bear to see it out for the year i.e. do 12 months and then go? By then you'd have been emersed in skills/ experience and could perhaps do locuming/ agency work (? possible) then you could get to test out other fields before commiting.

sorry not much help- but sorry you're having hard time of it- I have much admiration for you in getting throguh your training!

Thank you SFD, I know I should do 12 months as it'll be great experience that will stand me in good stead for another position somewhere else, just sometimes the thought of doing a year makes me want to curl up into a ball and die

Yesterday was better, someone else was in tears who had been there a few years and a few of us had a good chat in the break room about how hard it is, in lots of ways, becoming part of the team, fitting in, gettin to grips with the work etc, and that everyone (without exception even mego confident sister) felt the same when they started there.
My colleague said yesterday think of all the people I like, then all the people I hate, and there will be more I like, and he was right, i just think the people that are wankers are such massive wankers that you notice it more.
Am having coffee with university tutor this week who got me through my course when I had other moments of crisis so hopefully he will help too