I know that feeling. I was a nurse---well, I have a license that says I still am one, but I'm not practicing anymore because I just can't handle the stress. Constantly shifting priorities, multi-tasking, close attention to detail.....none of which I can manage now. I came close to making several critical mistakes toward the end of my last job, and that was it---I knew I couldn't hold peoples' lives in my hands any more.

Now I'm looking at possibly filing for disability because it doesn't look like I'm going to EVER be able to nurse again, and I have physical problems that make it difficult to do much of anything else. I have an interview Friday for a job as an intake coordinator for a children's psychiatric residential care facility, and I think I might be able to do that. I hope so anyway. It won't pay a fraction of what I made as a nurse, but the trade-off in lower stress levels may very well make it worth the pay cut.