A minor set back...

Yes indeed, a minor set back that may take a little bit to get over. I had this amazing and frankly, glamorous job set up at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. They were going to pay me to move and to get chemo certified. The oncology floor there pretty much was the best thing since sliced bread. Bone marrow transplant rooms, outpatient rooms, just great stuff. However, I would be taking about a $6 pay cut by doing all this. I would be driving 6+ hours a week total to drive to and from work. The good thing is that I would be working only 3 days a week, but I would have to awaken at the butt-crack of dawn to trec myself to Tulsa to be at work by 7am... all this for an amazing job in the oncology field which I love. Well, I do not foresee that glamorous job that I was longing for to happen anytime soon. So I just applied to Stillwater Medical Center in Stillwater, OK. It is a small hospital, about the same size as where I am at now. From what I understand there is no oncology unit there. Mostly just general Med-Surg, some post-op, nothing too spectacular. The pay I am unsure of but it will not be a drastic $6 less.. it will be less than what I am at now, but not that much less. The good thing about this place is that it is practically right across the street from where I shall be residing myself. I will be most likely working 12 hour shifts.. 7a-7p.. but that means that I can play kickball in the evenings (this is what Jon informs me of). I will just be getting more experience at doing what I do best.. being a nurse. And I am thinking that is what I need right now. I would love to dive into oncology, but I think that I need to get my feet a little bit more wet with experience and a variety of experience at that. I was pretty disappointed this afternoon about all this. However with the support of my friends and fam I was able to see the brighter side of this situation. It will be better when I move down to Oklahoma to get better accustomed to the area for me to actually work in that area. I worked it out in my head and on paper and there are many more positives to me working in Stillwater than working in Tulsa. So I hope and pray for the best with this application and resume that I just submitted. I hope you do too.

Peace in the Middle East,
Melbert