I work in healthcare and I’ve been so burnt out after working through COVID despite how politicized it was, not knowing if I was risking my life, my loved ones’ lives, or my own permanent sense of smell and taste, all while getting told off by ignorant, selfish pieces of crap just for wearing a mask and taking an illness that I personally witnessed kill many people seriously, not to mention being overworked and understaffed for literally YEARS due to a combination of baby boomers retiring while simultaneously increasing the need for healthcare workers by needing more care as they age, coworkers finding other jobs because of their own burnout, and hospital administration trying to maximize profits at the expense of the workers and at the expense of patient care that I just up and resigned from my own job a week ago.
I don’t even know what I’m going to do. I withdrew my retirement account early and I’m just taking some time to figure it out right now. Tbh though, the idea of going back to healthcare makes me feel physically ill. And that’s really sad because I got into it to help people, but after the way people acted during the worst pandemic we’ve had in a century I don’t want to help anyone anymore. I just want a normal 9 to 5 where I’ll have weekends, evenings, and holidays off and very little to zero risk of bringing a contagious and deadly or debilitating virus home to my family.
Wife is a nurse that works at a hospital and when she’d come home from her shift, when Covid was raging, she’d derobe in the garage and run to the shower to wash. We had a 3 year old and 6 month old at the time. And she risked all our lives to help people that didn’t take the issue seriously and some that even yelled at her that she faked their bloodwork because Covid wasn’t real.
Thank you for trying to help others, even when they don’t believe it’s real.
I’m not surprised in the least.
I work in healthcare and I’ve been so burnt out after working through COVID despite how politicized it was, not knowing if I was risking my life, my loved ones’ lives, or my own permanent sense of smell and taste, all while getting told off by ignorant, selfish pieces of crap just for wearing a mask and taking an illness that I personally witnessed kill many people seriously, not to mention being overworked and understaffed for literally YEARS due to a combination of baby boomers retiring while simultaneously increasing the need for healthcare workers by needing more care as they age, coworkers finding other jobs because of their own burnout, and hospital administration trying to maximize profits at the expense of the workers and at the expense of patient care that I just up and resigned from my own job a week ago.
I don’t even know what I’m going to do. I withdrew my retirement account early and I’m just taking some time to figure it out right now. Tbh though, the idea of going back to healthcare makes me feel physically ill. And that’s really sad because I got into it to help people, but after the way people acted during the worst pandemic we’ve had in a century I don’t want to help anyone anymore. I just want a normal 9 to 5 where I’ll have weekends, evenings, and holidays off and very little to zero risk of bringing a contagious and deadly or debilitating virus home to my family.
Wife is a nurse that works at a hospital and when she’d come home from her shift, when Covid was raging, she’d derobe in the garage and run to the shower to wash. We had a 3 year old and 6 month old at the time. And she risked all our lives to help people that didn’t take the issue seriously and some that even yelled at her that she faked their bloodwork because Covid wasn’t real.
Thank you for trying to help others, even when they don’t believe it’s real.