cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/559954
Im a nurse and most nurses seem to agree 2 years is the mark when you become proficient.
I passed the nclex but there are so many things you only learn by doing and living it, not reading it on a book or on a lecture by a nurse who stopped working with patients 20 years ago.
This sucks because until then your coworkers are not going to fully trust you and, in my case, they want me to do things their way, because otherwise it’s wrong. Add 6 nurses to the mix that feel entitled to this and you’ll understand why Im burning out: every one of them feels entitled to correct me, but the way one works contradicts how the next one does.
I wonder if this is a rite of passage across industries and workplaces and if in some industries it takes way less than 2 years to be proficient.
If this is how life is, how do I survive till year 2?
Define proficient? I’ve never stopped getting better at any of my jobs, but I hit “good enough” after a year or two. After 5 I had improved processes and procedures enough that I could do my boss’s job, and when they gave that job to someone else I left to do a similar higher position elsewhere.
I still carry those skills with me, so I am much more prepared even when dealing with something new because I’ve dealt with similar problems in the past.