Since moving to Pennsylvania and my subsequent lay-off last August, my attempts to find a full time and/or local job have yielded little results. Being under paid and highly over trained for the part time work I have found has left me disgruntled. I know everyone thinks health care was safe from the recession, but you are mistaken. There are a lot of nursing jobs, yes, but not many places are ready to hire until mistakes start reaching dangerous levels. Like any other business, health care is all about the bottom line.
I started toying with the idea of a complete career change a few months back. It's an idea that has been gaining strength with my current job. Upon being hired I was supposed to take a geriatric course to ensure I could work for this company. 12 people were hired with me under the same premise. As it turns out, that class is not being offered and we can only work for 120 days before being let go. After a week we are asked to reapply for another 120 days. And so on the process would go until such time as the course can be given at my current location. Wonderful business practices, huh? Just imagine how your family members are being cared for with a turn over rate like that!
Back to where I was going with all of this. I genuinely loved working in health care, but I think I'm starting to feel burned out. Nursing no longer makes me happy and I really don't have a desire to do it anymore. It has become less about patient care and more about paperwork and corporate images. It's not what I set out to do. I never got into this for the money, but for love of what I was doing.
I don't know what else I could or would do. Maybe go into computers and make oodles of money. Maybe sell a bunch of crap on ebay and become filthy stinking rich. There's always the lucrative sex tape idea, but since no one knows me or Joe that probably won't work either.
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