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Maybe a new job

I received a call from Vancouver Coastal Health recruitment yesterday requesting I come in for an interview for the Tertiary Mental health unit staff nurse position I applied for a couple weeks ago. With this interview comes a great sense of relief at the possibility that I will only have to go back to work at Detox for four weeks when I return from my maternity leave in January. It's amazing how work actually effects me even when I'm not at work. I'm greatly enjoying this time off from Detox. I was not really thinking about work at all until a coworker who is temporarily filling in my line facebook messaged me to ask when I'm retuning to work (I guess she was under the impression that I was taking the entire year of leave and thus that she would have a temporary full-time line for an entire year). This was a reminder of the deep anxiety that I constantly feel at work. This in turn triggered some anxiety about actually returning to work in a place that I find detrimenta...