A wise person once said, "Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life." To that I say, "Yeah, right."
Celebrities live what appears to be the perfect life with what seems like limitless money at their disposal, and even they have days where life just smacks them in the face. Without a doubt, the average person sometimes thinks about flipping over their desk and running free out the nearest exit while sitting through a Zoom or Webex meeting. Yes, you can love your job. And yes, you can be exhausted from it.
It seems that as healthcare workers, we develop this complex of "being needed." So much so that we come in on our day off and work countless hours of overtime because the unit is understaffed. We then go through the crash-and-burn phase in which we are just so tired on our scheduled day, and we end up calling out. Which then continues the cycle of the unit being understaffed. Now more than ever, nurses are finding themselves in a dynamic love/hate relationship with their jobs. I can just imagine the literature that will be coming out years from now on the shift COVID has caused on healthcare.
