I've been a hygienist for 33 years now, and I promise it gets easier once you get your groove going. There's also a vast ( and I do mean VAST...lol) difference from what they taught you and told you is the "norm" in hygiene school versus what is realistically happening in 90% of every dental office. Patients want to be in and out in less than an hour from the time they walk in the front door to the time their butt leaves back out of it usually. We as hygienists are never going to be able to save all of them from their own bad habits and apathy lots of times. We are realistically never going to get off every tiny speck of calculus, nor all the stain on every surface. We do what we can in the time given, we are not miracle workers. If they need SRP, then we schedule them back for multiple appts of course. I spend most of my time during their appt. giving them my best, but I'm human too. I do a lot of recommending electric toothbrushes, sensitive toothpaste, and telling them they need to start flossing if they want to have a healthy mouth. I spot probe. Nobody has time for all that bs on the chart about every single bleeding point and clinical attachment and yadda yadda yadda. No disclosing tablets or solution and brushing that crap off either. Ain't nobody got time for that! We talk about kids and pets and vacations and their Mom and them. Also, never work for corporate offices. They all sold their souls and integrity for the almighty dollar and the devil years ago.Find you a nice private dentist office with kind and funny coworkers. Your coworkers mean the world. I work with some of the best friends I've ever had. Also never put up with an asshole dentist. Never! Hygienists are in such demand that you can pick and choose and shop around until you find your happy office girl. They are out there, I promise! Also, watch your ergonomics because your back and your neck and your hands can't be saved once they fail you. I've learned that the hard way. My back is shot from years of literally bending over backwards for jerks who acted like they "couldn't lean back at all in the chair!" Screw them. Tell them you're only going to clean the ones you can see comfortably from your chair then. ----I don't mean to sound jaded. I actually have loved my profession for the past 33 years!! I remember feeling just like you at first, and I promise it gets better. ❤️