It's been almost a year now since I started my first job as a nurse. Let me tell you, it has been one crazy roller coaster of a year. I love what I do and I have learned a ton in this year, but I still very often feel inadequate for this. There are still those days when I think: What am I doing?? Why did I sign up for this again? Why do I have a job that matters so much?

I think one of the things that is so challenging for me is that I feel like at work I'm sort of going it alone. I have some coworkers who are awesome and who are really supportive, but our approaches/attitudes/perspectives are so different that it's still frustrating. Sometimes it feels like I have two different lives...there is work, and then there is the rest of my life. I have no idea how to reconcile the two. There are a couple people who can kind of be the bridge in between, who will understand if I need to vent about something that happened at work, but most of the time I don't know how to talk about it. I often don't know how to verbalize the either the struggles or the cool things that I experience at work.