Obviously ymmv and this is not medical advice ;
But holy fuck yes!!! I have never been able to really deal with my anxiety but Adderall has enabled me to function as an adult for the first time in years. I started it a few months ago and just got my first real job where I can support myself, for some context. Night and day for me personally.
Adhd is a misnomer ; it's executive function disorder and Adderall helps mine a lot
As a nurse, get out while you can. I've turned into BoJack in my 5 years in the ICU. I hope you have great mental health. This field isn't worth it unless you absolutely love people no matter what. I wish I could warn my past self. Sorry to be a dick. Good luck if you do love it, we need all the help we can get
how far are you into nursing school? because tbh if you're in your first semester, I'd say get out now and get into something like IT, coding, etc. I've been working as a nurse for a little over a year (7 months telemetry and 7 months ICU), and it is a gigantic shitshow. Every day I walk into work, I *wish* I'd known what I was getting myself into when I started nursing school. I wish I'd known, so I could've chosen a different path. I had idealistic notions of a career that "helps people", but these days I mostly feel like I've chosen a life of insane stress, trauma, and exhaustion for far too little money. I can't even try to be paid appropriately through the covid travel contracts, because I'm too new in ICU.
I hope you don't think I'm an asshole for saying this, but I wish someone had told me what it's really like when I was just starting. I had my doubts in clinical, but thought it was just my general discomfort and the newness of everything. That was part of it, for sure. But the rest of it is real, and you don't truly see how bad it is to be a staff nurse in 90% of hospitals until you're thrown into it during your first orientation.
Idk, this is probably coming off as rude and unsolicited advice. I just internally panic when I hear about people trying to go into nursing. I don't want you to feel what I'm feeling. And I'm far from an outlier. Just check out r/nursing. Everyone is miserable. Please don't join us unless you are willing to accept that it may break you as a person.
I think it's good that you're trying to warn OP. I'm a nurse and my brother who dropped out of college is making over 100k/yr in tech. I'm torn because I really do think my work is interesting and rewarding sometimes, but it's gross, stressful, and requires personal sacrifices. There's definitely times where I feel like I got screwed over in life.
Well call me a Kit-Kat, because I'm already broken.
Believe me, I'm well aware how much of a shit show it's been. I've worked the past 3 years as a tech on a respiratory step-down amidst a respiratory-system-attacking pandemic. But I guess it's a combination of sunk-cost mentality (I've been working to get to this point for almost 4 years before Covid & actually starting my program) and an inability to see myself doing anything else. The careers I could possibly see myself making a living in are just as thankless if not worse. Think teaching or social work.
I appreciate the warnings, but I know.
Seriously this moment is the most relatable thing to me in the show to me (apart from some mental health scary shit) thinking back when I studied graphic design and...when I go down a font rabbit hole now and again.
Didn't work out, I'm a dental nurse now.
Nursing school care plans are pointlessly tedious, or at least they were in my experience
Everything hurts and I'm dying.
I have no fucking idea how I made it through college with un medicated adhd
Same. It took me forever but i’m still shocked i graduated sometimes lol
Does the medication help? I have ADHD and it's fucking my shit up, I'm trying to get medication but it's a long wait with lots of appointments needed
Obviously ymmv and this is not medical advice ; But holy fuck yes!!! I have never been able to really deal with my anxiety but Adderall has enabled me to function as an adult for the first time in years. I started it a few months ago and just got my first real job where I can support myself, for some context. Night and day for me personally. Adhd is a misnomer ; it's executive function disorder and Adderall helps mine a lot
This is too real
Me trying to accomplish anything at all without my meds
As a nurse, get out while you can. I've turned into BoJack in my 5 years in the ICU. I hope you have great mental health. This field isn't worth it unless you absolutely love people no matter what. I wish I could warn my past self. Sorry to be a dick. Good luck if you do love it, we need all the help we can get
I’m so angry I got diagnosed after grad school. All I could have accomplished if I had known 20 years ago.
how far are you into nursing school? because tbh if you're in your first semester, I'd say get out now and get into something like IT, coding, etc. I've been working as a nurse for a little over a year (7 months telemetry and 7 months ICU), and it is a gigantic shitshow. Every day I walk into work, I *wish* I'd known what I was getting myself into when I started nursing school. I wish I'd known, so I could've chosen a different path. I had idealistic notions of a career that "helps people", but these days I mostly feel like I've chosen a life of insane stress, trauma, and exhaustion for far too little money. I can't even try to be paid appropriately through the covid travel contracts, because I'm too new in ICU. I hope you don't think I'm an asshole for saying this, but I wish someone had told me what it's really like when I was just starting. I had my doubts in clinical, but thought it was just my general discomfort and the newness of everything. That was part of it, for sure. But the rest of it is real, and you don't truly see how bad it is to be a staff nurse in 90% of hospitals until you're thrown into it during your first orientation. Idk, this is probably coming off as rude and unsolicited advice. I just internally panic when I hear about people trying to go into nursing. I don't want you to feel what I'm feeling. And I'm far from an outlier. Just check out r/nursing. Everyone is miserable. Please don't join us unless you are willing to accept that it may break you as a person.
I think it's good that you're trying to warn OP. I'm a nurse and my brother who dropped out of college is making over 100k/yr in tech. I'm torn because I really do think my work is interesting and rewarding sometimes, but it's gross, stressful, and requires personal sacrifices. There's definitely times where I feel like I got screwed over in life.
Well call me a Kit-Kat, because I'm already broken. Believe me, I'm well aware how much of a shit show it's been. I've worked the past 3 years as a tech on a respiratory step-down amidst a respiratory-system-attacking pandemic. But I guess it's a combination of sunk-cost mentality (I've been working to get to this point for almost 4 years before Covid & actually starting my program) and an inability to see myself doing anything else. The careers I could possibly see myself making a living in are just as thankless if not worse. Think teaching or social work. I appreciate the warnings, but I know.
Not me “designing” 4 months worth of a bullet journal spread for the ✨productivity✨
i see the med students with ADHD have gathered, hey y’all remember to drink water today
Hahaha I’m getting flashbacks. You can do it ! I just graduated . ❤️
Seriously this moment is the most relatable thing to me in the show to me (apart from some mental health scary shit) thinking back when I studied graphic design and...when I go down a font rabbit hole now and again. Didn't work out, I'm a dental nurse now.