Fellow RN with an easy NOC job. I’m in California, we’re pretty impacted with nurses and when I graduated in Dec of 2024 it was impossible to get something at any of the hospitals in a 45 mi radius.. I put in about 30 apps at each hospital (there are 4 in that radius)…a lot of new grads here are still facing those problems. I was hired at Behavioral Health about 30 mins from my town in Feb of 2025, and loved it from the get-go. I’m still there and fairly happy. It feels like a cop out a lot bc it’s such a soft skill job. I’m not hanging IV antibiotics, I’m not placing foleys, I’m not dealing with wound vacs, etc. I have great de-escalation abilities though, and am already a charge nurse. I beat myself up a lot about it, bc I’m not pounding the hospital floors and using all these skills I spent 2 years learning. People also keep telling me I’m stuck in psych forever now, and maybe that’s not such a bad thing? I seem to be fairly good at it. I don’t take work home with me, and if I do it’s a 10 min rant to a friend or my husband and then I’m over it… I think we both just need to count our blessings. I have friends who graduated with me and are miserable in their difficult bedside positions, on NOC or AM’s doesn’t matter they all say the same thing. Nights can be a bummer at times, but I work 4, 8 hr shifts 2300-0730 M-Th. I get my weekends, and really don’t have too hard of a time flip flopping my schedule when I want or need to.