Fired After 50 Part V: Happily Ever After (I Hope!)

Congratulations!!! I'm so happy and relieved for you.All I can say is we've arrived at a pretty sorry state if there is no place in the nursing world for someone as talented, intelligent, kind and caring as you are.We know this is a great thing for you, but it also sounds like a definite bonus for the residents and other staff members of this facility.Everybody wins!

Awesome news, Viva!!! So very happy for you! PTL!BTW, love this quote: "The residents don't live in our facility---We work in THEIR home."

That is great news and gives hope to those out there who are still looking. Go get 'em, Viva!

Congrats!!!!! I am thrilled for you!!!!

Very GOOD news!!!!!!!

Fantastic!

Hooray! Congratulations. I am so happy for you. It sounds like a great job and I wish you all the best.

So glad it has turned around!

Congrats, your bravery is to be commended!

Congrats!! I'm so happy that has worked out for you!

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!I'm so happy for you.

Thanks, all.Now just watch---the job offers will start coming in like gangbusters once I'm actually working again. It never fails.And something else I've realized during this dry spell: my priorities have shifted. A lot. I really don't want a 'career' anymore; at this point in my life, I just don't want to work that hard. That's why my last job was basically a dream job, and why I'm embracing this new one in the same fashion---it's a job that I can do for 40 hours a week, and the rest of the time is my own. I'll make enough money to keep dh and me in the lifestyle to which we've become accustomed, and while I'll need to move to a desk job fairly soon, the opportunity will be there to do so. Even better, the job is close to home; everything else I've looked at involved a lot of travel, and to be honest I'm not all that whoopie on moving around so much. My night vision is lousy, so driving at night is problematic, and our winter weather is anything but predictable.....most of the time it's simply rainy, but there is the occasional surprise snow/ice storm that makes our roads extremely dangerous (mainly because so few people around here know how to drive in those conditions). Besides, I love my home and my town and I don't want to move closer to a big city if I can avoid it......I've lived here for about 20 years, and I complain every year about the loooooong wet winters and gloomy springs, but in spite of that I've planted my roots deeply here, and I'll probably die here as well. Yes, my once-strong ambition has more or less gone away, but I think that's OK......there's room at the table for all kinds of nurses, and I don't feel I'm wasting my life in deciding to keep it simple. I'm older; life has mellowed; and suddenly so many things I once thought were important no longer matter.