I sometimes wish I could be working in the local library rather than as a healthcare professional?

[Anonymous]

I’m training to becoming a healthcare professional. To be honest , I don’t like it. It’s too stressful for me.

Sometimes I just wish I could be working something very chilled to suit my personality, literally in a local shop/ library where I don’t have all the pressure.

I’m honestly considering quitting but I know my mother will be really mad at me. I haven’t told anyone how stressed I am. Is it wrong to quit?

[jennifer_bloom]

I can relate to you because I sometimes feel like it's hard. When I was in university I sometimes felt like I was in prison and wanted to be set free cause I was chained to obligations and responsibilities and expectations and social rules every day of my academic life. When I was working on my career after graduating, I sometimes wanted to escape too, but the thing is - if you're challenged more, you will grow more. A person who is never challenged will grow at a much slower speed than somebody who is climbing mount Everest like challenges every month. And you adapt to the level of expectation and it becomes easier.

There is also an idea that you don't have to climb the same obstacles over and over again, that once you get to the top, the challenge is over. My cousin worked 14 hour days for years and now only works 6 hours a day or less cause her previous hard work is paying dividends so she can relax and reap those benefits without continuous new stress to climb higher and higher. My old pastor said the same thing, that when you've drunk the challenge to the dredges, you never have to go through the same difficulty ever again.

[_Maya_]

No it isn't wrong to quit. You thought you would like it and you don't. You're hardly the first person to find out what they thought they'd enjoy they actually didn't. Ask yourself if you could do it for 30+ more years. Doesn't sound like the answer would be a yes from what you write. It is never too late or wrong for that matter to switch careers and do something else. I had two friends do that. One switched in college midway and the other after they graduated. Got into something completely different. Do what makes ya happy.

[ArrowheadSW]

I'm just thinking that when you finish your training, you might be less stressed? How much more training do you have before you are finished?

[Asker]

I’ve got about a year left:)

[DerekC321]

What's wrong with being a healthcare professional?