New Job Starting Today.

[silent meowlook]

I am starting a new job in about 10 hours and am super nervous about it for some reason. I am going to be working at an emergency hospital, the swing shift. Don't know why I am stressing this. I have done emergency before. I know what I am doing. But, I am older now and the shifts are brutal. It is also highly stressful. So, of course, I can't sleep. Grrr.

 

[verna davies]

Good luck, I'm sure once you walk through the doors it will all be fine. Let us know how it goes.

 

[neely]

Best of luck! Hope your first day on the job goes well. I'm sure once you get acquainted with your co-workers you'll feel more comfortable.

 

[betsygee]

Good luck! Once you get started, you'll probably get right into the swing of things.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

Change can be stressful so I understand!

I hope your first day goes well and you enjoy your new job!

 

[AbbysMom]

I hope it went well!

 

[silent meowlook]

Thank you. It was okay. Long shift and some sad euthanasia’s as well. Have to go in again tonight. Hopefully the night goes by quicker.

 

[silent meowlook]

Hi. Doing well at my new job. We had a surgeon come in that I worked with 15 years ago who said really great things about me to my new boss. So that was good. Everyone there is appreciative of what I do. It is so nice to not have to deal with the toxic crap I was dealing with. I do miss the cats of course.
Being an emergency vet it is stressful and often sad. The shifts are long but the benefits are great and the pay is good for this line of work.

 

[verna davies]

Glad your settling in well, like the job and are appreciated, makes all the difference.

 

[Margot Lane]

Thank you for all the hard work you do to help save the lives of the animals we love so much.

 

[Winchester]

I can only imagine how stressed you were. Hopefully, you will adjust and it will be OK. Shift work is difficult.

 

[arikanisil]

Congrats for the new job you landed. I hope you will like it as the time passes by, despite being stressful bcs of emergency cases.

Best of luck in this new challenge

 

[silent meowlook]

Ugh. This job sucks. But I don’t have any options right now. I hope it improves. The Vet is ok. The coworkers are nice enough, but I hate the way cats are treated.

 

[AbbysMom]

I'm sorry S silent meowlook . It's got to be hard to see. It seems like cats are often overlooked at veterinary practices that take care of all animals. My niece is a vet tech and some of the vets at her practice don't even like cats.

 

[silent meowlook]

Yeah, it is sad. Working emergency, there are allot of euthanasia’s and it does get very depressing. I am doing the best I can with it, but it’s hard.

 

[silent meowlook]

Just needing to put this down. I hate my job!! I would give anything not to feel.

 

[silent meowlook]

After another 11 hour shift, third one in a row and 2 more days to go, I find myself unable to stop thinking about all the pets and people we had to turn away due to staffing shortages. So many euthanasia’s. So many critically injured and ill animals. I’ve worked emergency before but have never experienced having to turn Pets and their people away. Of course I have no way to find out what happened to them.

 

[Margot Lane]

O my can feel the stress here…another way to think on it is: you helped a lot of lives and people simply by being there. All you can do is focus on the now, not the what ifs…not your fault. Thank you for all the help you give!

 

[AbbysMom]

It may not give you comfort because you don't actually see the pet, but you have helped countless animals here on this site with your advice.

 

[silent meowlook]

Thank you so much. That means allot.