Re: ATT and NCLEX ?? and job offer struggle...help!
Amanda - here's a thing my old boss taught me better than 15 years ago.
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"Just because you're invited doesn't me you have to go."
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Other jobs can and will come your way. This particular nursing home is not the only show in town, are they? I "get" the part about not wanting to burn bridges and keeping a regular paycheck, but this place is not your first and last employer in your entire lifetime, are they?
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Take a deep breath, take a step back, be polite, and whip out your handy-dandy calendar. Where do you see yourself at Halloween? Where do you seen yourself next summer? You don't have to take the first job offered. If you are "at liberty" this means you don't have to madly reschedule your hours to fit interviews in. This is the time to weigh your options and reflect upon what is offered and think about the career path that will get you to where you want to be. Are you looking for a place that offers tuition reimbursement? Offers in-house college classes? Delivers a kick-butt employer match on a 401(k)? Promises and deliveres upon a straight day/straight night/ weekends/no weekends schedule?
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Do not come from a place of lack. Come from a place of prosperity consciousness. The world is your oyster and you are a favored child of God. It is never an insult for a place of business to grant you a valid job offer. Weigh it. Examine it. If it is not for you, kindly and politely put it back on the shelf; somebody else is jumping at the chance. Your job is waiting for you to come and get it.
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I did not get three job offers I interviewed for, (and one broke my heart) and I almost cancelled the interview where I did get hired (because I had a job set up to start in May at a hospital that offered an in-house Bachelor's of Nursing program). I am so happy, and in hindsight, I see I will receive "oodles" more training here than at the job I did accept (and later, politely, two weeks before orientation, declined.) My fifth interview was the perfect place. And I was unemployed and living on my tax refund for the entire month of April. Have faith. You got this far. Just because you are invited, doesn't mean you have to go. fifi rockefeller.
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