Diary entry #1 – Why this blog? Why now?
There are moments in life when you ask yourself: What am I doing all this for? This question has accompanied me through some sleepless nights. I am on the verge of completing my nursing training – a field I love, but whose system simultaneously disgusts me. Yes, I say it that drastically. Nursing is not just a job, but a tightrope walk between humanity and bureaucracy, between vocation and exploitation.
And that's exactly why there's now this blog.
From a fixed idea to reality
For a long time I have been toying with the idea of setting up something of my own. Not just a nursing blog where I vent about the nursing shortage – there are already enough people doing that. But something that is thought bigger. A space for genuine reflection. Where it's not just about the job, but about the big picture: work & vocation, self-determination, search for meaning, society & responsibility.
My goal? I don't just want to complain, I want to change something.
But change doesn't start with slogans – it starts with honest confrontation. With questions that are uncomfortable.
For example:
Why do we allow our healthcare system to be devoured by profit logic?
Why do people work for decades in jobs that make them sick?
Why do we find it so difficult to stand up for ourselves while fighting for others?
Why should you be interested?
Quite simply: Because you are somewhere in this system.
Maybe you are in nursing yourself, maybe in a completely different profession, but you too know the feeling that something is not right. That we settle for far too little.
I'm not here to spoon-feed solutions or spread any motivational bulls**t. I'm here to ask questions, think, throw theses into the room that are uncomfortable. And if you want, you can be part of it.
What's next?
In the next entry, it's about my own story – how I ended up in nursing, why I almost quit and what still keeps me going. Spoiler: It had nothing to do with heroism.
Until then – think about it:
What is actually stopping YOU from doing what you really want?
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