Pay check??

[All Star_Pre Nurse]

What was your reaction to your first check?

[Nurseadam]

What was your reaction to your first check?

happiness!

[All Star_Pre Nurse]

happiness!

Lol was it a big check?

[lagalanurse]

Much happiness! I get paid every 2 weeks and my first check was $300 less than what I used to make in a full month at my previous job as a marketing coordinator. And I'm not even at my full rate, I get $4 less an hour while in orientation!

[All Star_Pre Nurse]

Did you get a new car? House?? Shop how was it.?

[All Star_Pre Nurse]

Much happiness! I get paid every 2 weeks and my first check was $300 less than what I used to make in a full month at my previous job as a marketing coordinator. And I'm not even at my full rate I get $4 less an hour while in orientation![/quote']

Wow sounds like alot!!!!

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

Ha, your first pay check in nursing will be nowhere near enough to buy a new car or a house.

I paid my rent, bought groceries and probably my student loans. After that, nothing was left. It took four years of working full time to save up enough money to make a down payment on a house... and even then, I had to cash a ton of old bonds to do it. You don't make a lot of money in your first years as a nurse... not in the least, especially with the economy how it is now and Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements down... raises are stagnant because of that but the dollar is worth less and less every year.

[Akeos]

Hahahaha, A New car or house...good joke! I paid my bills, just like i've done with all my pay checks.

[Racer15, BSN, RN]

I put a third of it into savings, so I can start saving for a new car. It's going to take me at least five or six months of doing that to get a good down payment on a new car. I know people that ran out and bought a new car the day they graduated but that just seems stupid to me. To each their own I guess!

[Racer15, BSN, RN]

Slight disappointment, when I saw how much was taken out for taxes in all honesty.

[tdarden]

In order to make more you have to specializ and gain experience first.

[dah doh, BSN, RN]

Nice dinner out with hubby. Start to pay down student loans. Savings. Pay bills.