Oh shrpgrl, I feel your pain.
Being married to someone in the military left me changing states and nursing jobs every 2-4 years since finishing school. It meant working when ill (just not contagious) as I had to build PTO (paid time off) from the ground up in case I was ever very ill or required surgery so I could keep my job.
Which meant no vacations. We'd combine vacation with our moves, which isn't really a vacation due to stress.
I hate starting a new job. I have enough diverse experience that the older and the nurses don't feel comfortable with the skill set from various places I bring with me, and the new ones who have been at the workplace longer feel threatened. I ask for day shift, but staffing always pulls out the need-for-experience-on-night-shift card. So all I'm offered is another invisible night shift position, 12 hour shifts, which leads to no where.
It also meant advancing my education kept getting put on hold as we needed to focus on my husband's education to prepare him for the civilian world after 21 years in the military.
All that preparation has not found him a job, but again put me on nights. I have a teaching job during the week that I love, but the commute is a bear and my school is being sold.
I like to think I'm a really good nurse, but maybe too nice a person to really get ahead in today's nursing world.
I found a great online MSN program I'd love to start, but with two jobs? How?
Oh, and how to juggle the great Mom and supportive wife thing too?
I'm sorry you're being penalized for the sick time thing. It seems like you are being punished for something completely out of your control.
Chat line on sat.might be out as weve a party on, lots of teenagers
Im off tacking the dog out to escape!
