Hey everyone,
I work at a military installation CDC, which all together makes two years of working at a military child development center. I am 21 years old and on top of work, I am also pursuing a college degree online. Let me just come out and say that I think I am experiencing burn-out. I have been at this new center for about five months now and I honestly really dislike it. I like children but I hate all the rules and regulations that come with working on a military facility. I work in an infant room with two other teachers but my supervisors look down upon having three teachers in rooms at the same time so when there are three of us they always make one of the other two teachers go to planning, or training and since I am a flex staff employee I am always in the rooms. They also work us flex from open to close 6-6 because they give us a two or three hour split in between. I just feel so incredibly burnt out. I no longer have a positive attitude about anything. I just completely dread my shifts everyday. It is the worst feeling in the world to not want to go to your job but feeling stuck in what you are doing. I give daycare workers a lot of respect because before daycare I had this glamorized idea of what daycare would be like and it's not at all what I thought it was going to be. And let me just vent and say that I have never had problems with getting sick until I started at this new program. In the past five months, I have been sick countless times, and as I type this I have the flu, after just getting over bronchitis. I know it's because they don't enforce the sick policy here as good as they did at the last facility I worked at. I am just so tired of parents, co-worker, management, being stuck in a room full of screaming infants... I can't even use the bathroom when I want to. I am stuck to a small room with infants day in and out. I just don't feel like a normal, adult human anymore. What should I do? Should I just take a break? Or should I just leave? Also, does anybody else feel this way? I just need some reassurance. Thanks everyone. Also, I should add that I am going to school for psychology, which I plan on being a licensed mental health therapist for adults so its not like I am working there for experience or anything. Should I just find something new?
I work at a military installation CDC, which all together makes two years of working at a military child development center. I am 21 years old and on top of work, I am also pursuing a college degree online. Let me just come out and say that I think I am experiencing burn-out. I have been at this new center for about five months now and I honestly really dislike it. I like children but I hate all the rules and regulations that come with working on a military facility. I work in an infant room with two other teachers but my supervisors look down upon having three teachers in rooms at the same time so when there are three of us they always make one of the other two teachers go to planning, or training and since I am a flex staff employee I am always in the rooms. They also work us flex from open to close 6-6 because they give us a two or three hour split in between. I just feel so incredibly burnt out. I no longer have a positive attitude about anything. I just completely dread my shifts everyday. It is the worst feeling in the world to not want to go to your job but feeling stuck in what you are doing. I give daycare workers a lot of respect because before daycare I had this glamorized idea of what daycare would be like and it's not at all what I thought it was going to be. And let me just vent and say that I have never had problems with getting sick until I started at this new program. In the past five months, I have been sick countless times, and as I type this I have the flu, after just getting over bronchitis. I know it's because they don't enforce the sick policy here as good as they did at the last facility I worked at. I am just so tired of parents, co-worker, management, being stuck in a room full of screaming infants... I can't even use the bathroom when I want to. I am stuck to a small room with infants day in and out. I just don't feel like a normal, adult human anymore. What should I do? Should I just take a break? Or should I just leave? Also, does anybody else feel this way? I just need some reassurance. Thanks everyone. Also, I should add that I am going to school for psychology, which I plan on being a licensed mental health therapist for adults so its not like I am working there for experience or anything. Should I just find something new?
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