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I'm I crazy?

After working one year in a toxic environment I decided that I had to leave that hospital. I applied and got a call back from all of the hospitals I applied to within 2 weeks. It's crazy to think how valuable just 1 year can be to employers. For me I still feel brand new some days. It took me one year out of my ADN program to find a hospital job.

Here's the question tho: the job I accepted is 45 mins of highway driving on a good day. It is literally the highest ranked hospital in my area. I will be driving past other good hospitals to go there. The pay is higher and the benefits are great but it is a distance. So I'm I crazy?

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    No. 45 minutes is not that bad. I drive around 40.

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    I started working at a hospital that was an hour long commute. Some days, that turned into several more hours due to rush hour traffics or accidents on the only road with a bridge across the mighty river. I did it for 3-4 months and then moved closer. Is it doable? Yes. Is it crazy? Not really. Is it an annoyance? You betcha!

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    I'm I?

    Man and I just started taking classes for my BSN too. Guess I'm going to need a lot of help. [emoji16] You should help me

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    That depends on what else you have going on in your life. My job is far away and I love it, but now that I have a newborn, I'm not sure I want to spend so much time on the road. It was getting tiring even before the baby ....but now it's just horrific to think about.

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    Yes, I'm me.

    Please accept my sincerest apologies for such bad grammar. I would say I promise it wouldn't happen again but unfortunately I am human. [emoji4]

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    That depends on what else you have going on in your life. My job is far away and I love it, but now that I have a newborn, I'm not sure I want to spend so much time on the road. It was getting tiring even before the baby ....but now it's just horrific to think about.

    Definitely! I think having kids and/or a husband would make me not want to drive so far. I don't know what the future holds tho. Hopefully I will live closer in the years to come. I hope your situation gets easier soon as well.

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    Please accept my sincerest apologies for such bad grammar. I would say I promise it wouldn't happen again but unfortunately I am human. [emoji4]

    No worries. I'm a stickler for spelling and grammar, but I often find that my fingers press the wrong buttons on my too-small-of-a-phone keyboard.

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    For me 45 minutes 2x day is a lifetime. But... 45" 2x day in a nice car in flowing traffic isn't nearly as hellacious as a so-so car in stop and go traffic. I might consider the former if it weren't a noc shift.

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    For me 45 minutes 2x day is a lifetime. But... 45" 2x day in a nice car in flowing traffic isn't nearly as hellacious as a so-so car in stop and go traffic. I might consider the former if it weren't a noc shift.

    I will still be working night shift as well.

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    There are bumper stickers that read "I'd rather be... (golfing, fishing, scuba diving, etc, etc.)" which says to me, "I'd rather be doing something different now than what I'm doing, which is driving to work".

    Well, sure- I'd rather be bicycling, doing art, relaxing on the beach, making love to my wife, or a host of other things than driving to work. But, in order to do those things I like to do, I do the things I have to do. And driving to, and working, are those things I have to do in order to do the things I like to do.

    A poster back in the 70's said "Bloom where you're planted". A similar concept says "Be into the aesthetics of the transitory" which is, basically, making the most of the moment. And this moment is all any of us have.

    My drive to and from work is approximately 45 minutes each way and I do a host of things that are both entertaining and relaxing. For example, I listen almost entirely to Classical music, predominately Bach, while doing art or driving. Classical music allows me to, as Henry David Thoreau said, "Listen to the music of the spheres". Thoreau also related to nothing being so companionable as solitude.

    My drive to and from work is my time for me to key up or wind down. As in important things like going to sleep, working as a Nurse, being in a relationship, etc., nothing else in the world is more important than what I'm doing at that moment.

    So, I nearly always I enjoy my 45 minute drives.

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