My hubby is sick, and I woke up later than usual as a result, and it's raining like a mofo outside. I'm not a fan of driving into the city at all, much less when it's storming outside. No Thank You!
Job searching has been extremely depressing. I started filling out a ton of applications on Sunday night, and I was feeling ok about it until I discovered the auto-reject. One hospital in the area doesn't even wait to tell you that you are not hire-material. As soon as I hit the 'submit' button, I would instantly get a message that I didn't meet the requirements. Then I would get an e-mail saying the same thing just to rub it in. I had to pull out the Ben and Jerry's after that.
I have always known this was going to be a difficult process, but the realization of this still hurts. My 3.42 GPA (pretty darn impressive after the hell that is nursing school exams), my capstone in the ICU, my experience as a patient care tech on one of the headrest floors to work on in the hospital.....doesn't matter because I have no experience working as a Registered Nurse.
It makes me sad that I wasn't one of the lucky ones who just happened to get a job on the right floors that could hire a new grad. My floor can't help it that elective surgeries are down, and that the main surgeon had to take a leave for his own surgery. It makes me sick that I may be a hypocrite yet again, as I have considered the possibility that I may need to consider looking at nursing home positions, which is super depressing because that is the last thing I want to do.
I do have to keep trying. My friend's mom is a nursing instructor at another college, and she offered to help me with my resume. I was so happy to accept this. I don't feel like our school did enough to really help us in this area, even though we all had to make a resume. I can make it look neat, and formatted. I want you to tell me if you would make sure to read my resume or just throw it in the trash.
Luckily, I am not in a desperate situation. I have a good job that isn't going anywhere, with a boss who has always been amazingly flexible with me. There are things about my job that are frustrating, but it's all temporary stuff. I really will be sad when the day comes that I leave. I even want to work something out where I come in for a little bit, because I'm crazy.
In happy news, my couch pillows came in from Etsy, and I love them! I finally found curtains that I like so those are going up today. Now I gotta find some coordinating placemats/table clothes for the curtains I got for the kitchen. They are a deep aquamarine, so I gotta do some looking when I have time!
Also started looking at hair pictures, and trying to get the guts to schedule an appointment for my hair. I'm crazy.
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