Hello,
I'm a new grad RN living in Massachusetts which has a pretty horrible job market right now. I have been looking since the end of August and have only gotten one response to my applications which resulted in a job offer yesterday. The position is outpatient psych and is 60 miles away from my home. The pay is low, it's a 9-5, M-F job. I guess my concerns are as follows: long drive = lots of gas and wasted time commuting, not the type of nursing I really want to do, low pay, afraid of pigeonholing myself into psych. What do you all think? Part of me thinks I should just be glad to have gotten a job (any job) and take it, but then I think why did I bother going back to school for a different career if it was just to end up in another job that isn't really what I want to do?
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