The price you pay for helping others

When you're doing a job such as, being a CNA, a job in which your main concern is helping others, taking care of others, being there for others, basically putting patients' lives ahead of your own. You put a lot of time, effort into caring for your patient’s needs. Always being there, when they pull the call light, telling the nurses what’s wrong with the patient, making sure they are comfortable, and anything else that needs to be done. Then, when your home, you basically can be called into work at any time, any time of the day, especially if your job knows that you're a hard worker, they will then call you when, they need you to come in, if they are short on help. So, in the beginning, it doesn’t seem so bad, but after months, years, you realize, slowly but surely, that your life is revolving around your job, day and night. You don’t realize it in the beginning, but that’s one of the things that makes it so hard, is basically being on call, 24/7, your life revolves around your job, and you slowly start spending more and more time at work, and less time with your friends and family. For me personally, I didn’t realize how much of my life was revolving around my job, till around the 3rd to 4th year.