Damn, things get confusing quickly. I'm at a bit of a crossroads in my life currently so here's the background:
Shortly after I got a job in a nursing home I began dating one of the nurses there. This was April of 2012. Due to the increasingly poor conditions of the place we both decided to find other places of work. Around this time we also decided to find a place together.
Anyway, I found a new job in June this year working nights at a residential home. I love the new job and have fit in really well there. There is a large drawback though; the job is on the otherside of Sheffield which is 2 hours on public transport from where I live, on Sundays it can be closer to three. This in itself didn't bother me as with us planning to get a place together I always took it as a temporary inconvenience. In the time I have been in my new job my former employer has gone even further down the shitter and thus my girlfriend pressed on harder to get another job. She recently started said new job. Problem is this job is in Doncaster which is the opposite side of the county from where I work.
Even should we move halfway between it would only cut my journey down by a bit and I have been struggling with the workload recently which has meant with both the job and travel I am doing 16-17 hour shifts. At minimum wage I am having to pick up shifts too to pick my hours up to full time. Having several shifts in a row is knackering me out, especially as I sometimes struggle to get decent sleep in between shifts.
So, I'm not sure what to do. I'm in a job I love but money wise and travel wise it's wearing me down. I know I should probably stick it out until I move and see how things are then but I just have this fear that if I get a job somewhere else it will turn out to be as badly run as the first care home was which I worked in. I don't think it is as much a case of needing an answer over the decision I need to make but a kick up the backside to get over this fear of the unknown.