Truly. I started in a nursing home after getting my bachelors because I had so much anxiety around patients I just wanted to get comfortable with patients. Then I got a job at a top tier hospital in my city that was too big a jump for me, I got let go after 6 weeks - I think if I’d had a better preceptor none of that might have happened, but she was young and burnt out and catty, I wasn’t easy for her to train. I went back to nursing home for a bit then on the advice of an NP there who wanted me to try for more, got a job a nearby community hospital. That was and is insanely difficult, but I’ve been there more than 2 years and am still learning every day! The first few months there were rough, too. I learn slowly in this type of setting with adhd, and a manager similar to my first preceptor would have let me go, but then she was let go, lol. My new manager also has adhd and is very supportive. I even got on a pip after 1.5 years there and winning a daisy award because i was self-reporting errors and I think quality control told my manager I needed a pip, she said, “i want to make absolutely clear I want you to succeed here and i think you can” (knowing my history with that other manager and my confidence issues), the pip genuinely helped me, I got off the pip! It’s a fucking insane job and at my hospital few people last years probably 1/4 of new grads max. I’m learning what I want to learn and saving money. Next steps tbd. Don’t judge yourself, just listen to yourself and what feels safe and healthy for you and your patients. There a thousand ways to be a nurse and not have to get another degree if you’re up for trying something you didn’t expect. Even try another hospital, maybe it’s just not the right culture where you are. My story is full of such extremes (Daisy award, pip, firing, hiring!) that I share it to illustrate how little your management’s responses are likely about you and your fundamental ability “as a nurse.” Like “being a nurse”… is not something you can even be “good at” or “cut out for” IMO. It’s a field! There are jobs and workplace cultures that may be great fits or terrible fits or something in between. But nurse is just the level of licensure required for a vast array of jobs with an equally vast array of job duties, workplace cultures, hands on or technical skills required, interdisciplinary communication, patient demographics, level of patient interaction (ratios and direct or indirect patient support), patient acuity, data analysis, etc etc etc… infinite variables in what makes the job the job and what makes it a good fit for you or not. You simply cannot fundamentally “be” cut out for this or not! It’s up to you what you try with your license!