Quitting After One Month
So I graduated in May of this year and felt the need to go somewhere else to start working on my license as I was doing case management but now with my MSW want to work towards my clinical license. So I got a job at a community mental health center in their crisis walk in.
So my schedule is 11am-9pm Mon-thurs and I make about 26 an hr in colorado. So I started June 1st and I am not a big fan. To be honest I feel like I rushed the decision and just wanted to jump ship at my last job. I also thought crisis would be a little more crisis you know. Not saying that people having a really bad day are not in crisis, but it just feels like sitting there, waiting to give resources and discharge people who are scared to go home because they don’t meet criteria for inpatient. I also have really not clicked with the schedule. I used to work a typical day job and get off at 4pm. My wife gets off at 5 and works weekdays so she’s typically off to work when I wake up and I’m at work till we go to sleep Mon-Thursdays and then I really only see her Friday evening through Sunday. Don’t get me wrong it’s not the worst job. Benefits aren’t bad and the people are nice enough. I just don’t really feel like I’m clicking with it. It’s currently 5 as I write this and I feel jealous at all my coworkers leaving and my wife going home while I won’t get to go home for another 4-5 hrs.
Don’t get me wrong, I accepted this job, I didn’t fully understand what it would be like, I knew the schedule. I knew the pay. But I just don’t like it and feel so terrible here. But leaving after a month feels like a cop out. I also don’t know what else to do to be successful in social work but not do therapy type stuff.
Any opinions, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.