Am I wasting my time going to nursing school?

caliotter3 · May 29, 2011

Unless you can come up with another career where you are certain of employment, you can be an unemployed nurse as well as an unemployed anything else. If nursing is what you want to do, then become a nurse. Best wishes.

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · May 30, 2011

There are things you can do to out there and stand out. You can't go off what you see here, you don't know if people are doing everything that can to get the job. They might have a crappy resume, be submitting apps online and doing nothing else, they might be holding off on taking nclex and not being proactive. They might be picky on what shifts and units they are willing to work. My area is a very rough area on the job market and all you here is the doom and gloom stories. Our school told us to be prepared it might take 3-6 months to find a job and probably not in a hospital. We had students come to talk to us 1 year post graduation and the only 3 that had hospital jobs were contracts. One girl said she applied to the local hospital 75 times and never got a call back.

I graduated a few weeks ago and took my boards immediately. (2 weeks before everyone else in my class) I have been very proactive in the job search as soon as I got my lic. I have gone on one interview and have another set up with the same hospital if I don't get offered the position. The HR lady told me she wants to wait to set up the nursing panel interview because it was her understanding that the lady that interviewed me is "strongly considering me". I am hoping that is AKA for I got the job. But I am trying not to get my hopes up. I find out this week. Or I am supposed to find out this week. It would be a great position that I think I would really enjoy. Regardless if I don't get it though, I have hope. Something I didn't have before. Because I saw hard work really does pay off. Don't let anyone else decide your fate for you.

Best of luck to you in your ventures.

NursingN.C · May 30, 2011

There are things you can do to out there and stand out. You can't go off what you see here, you don't know if people are doing everything that can to get the job. They might have a crappy resume, be submitting apps online and doing nothing else, they might be holding off on taking nclex and not being proactive. They might be picky on what shifts and units they are willing to work. My area is a very rough area on the job market and all you here is the doom and gloom stories. Our school told us to be prepared it might take 3-6 months to find a job and probably not in a hospital. We had students come to talk to us 1 year post graduation and the only 3 that had hospital jobs were contracts. One girl said she applied to the local hospital 75 times and never got a call back.
I graduated a few weeks ago and took my boards immediately. (2 weeks before everyone else in my class) I have been very proactive in the job search as soon as I got my lic. I have gone on one interview and have another set up with the same hospital if I don't get offered the position. The HR lady told me she wants to wait to set up the nursing panel interview because it was her understanding that the lady that interviewed me is "strongly considering me". I am hoping that is AKA for I got the job. But I am trying not to get my hopes up. I find out this week. Or I am supposed to find out this week. It would be a great position that I think I would really enjoy. Regardless if I don't get it though, I have hope. Something I didn't have before. Because I saw hard work really does pay off. Don't let anyone else decide your fate for you.
Best of luck to you in your ventures.

Best of luck to you I hope you get the job

DarkBluePhoenix · May 30, 2011

Then do it! There are few jobs for new grads in ANY career right now.. but if you stick to it you'll find something.
I think a LOT of new grads you see complaining (not all, so no offense if this doesn't apply to some of you) are ones trying to cherry pick nursing jobs. You have to take what you can get and gain experience. If that means working from 10pm-7am and a LTC facility, that's what you have to do..

See I don't know if anyone has noticed but you see 2 types of threads

1. i cant find a job thread

2. i found a job (in some specialty that REQUIRES EXPERIENCE) thread..yay for me!

How is it that people are getting into specialties without experience (ER, NICU etc...) and then there are people who can't find jobs at all?

I guess the #1 crowd are being picky (even though they say in their post that they have applied everywhere even "lame" LTC [btw I would work in LTC but thats just me! and i love night shifts!!!])

And the #2 crowd lives in the middle of nowhere; where any sort of proximity to civilization is about as close as the 24 hour walmart, an hour OUT of the way. lol

I dont know, I guess in order to "find" a job you need to be un-picky and live in the boondocks?

LOL

DarkBluePhoenix · May 30, 2011

There are things you can do to out there and stand out. You can't go off what you see here, you don't know if people are doing everything that can to get the job. They might have a crappy resume, be submitting apps online and doing nothing else, they might be holding off on taking nclex and not being proactive. They might be picky on what shifts and units they are willing to work. My area is a very rough area on the job market and all you here is the doom and gloom stories. Our school told us to be prepared it might take 3-6 months to find a job and probably not in a hospital. We had students come to talk to us 1 year post graduation and the only 3 that had hospital jobs were contracts. One girl said she applied to the local hospital 75 times and never got a call back.
I graduated a few weeks ago and took my boards immediately. (2 weeks before everyone else in my class) I have been very proactive in the job search as soon as I got my lic. I have gone on one interview and have another set up with the same hospital if I don't get offered the position. The HR lady told me she wants to wait to set up the nursing panel interview because it was her understanding that the lady that interviewed me is "strongly considering me". I am hoping that is AKA for I got the job. But I am trying not to get my hopes up. I find out this week. Or I am supposed to find out this week. It would be a great position that I think I would really enjoy. Regardless if I don't get it though, I have hope. Something I didn't have before. Because I saw hard work really does pay off. Don't let anyone else decide your fate for you.
Best of luck to you in your ventures.

Aw good luck! I hope you get it!