which job would you choose?

Daye · Nov 3, 2007

me personally i would choose the endoscopy for the job preference itself, but because i always wanted to be w/my kiddos i know that i would have to go w/oral surgery. the only way i could be swayed is if the after school program was so above and beyond superior learning/creative and most of all a safe environment it just isn't worth it.

JHFaith · Nov 4, 2007

I'm not a nurse but I thought I would add my two cents worth. I worked as a CNA for five years in Same Day Surgery and we worked closely with the Endoscopy department. I thought you should take into account that on many occasions you may not get done by four every afternoon and at the facility I work at the staff has to stay until all the scheduled procedures are done. Delays happen for many different reasons including patients being late, patients ignoring NPO status, colon preps not working like they should and requiring extra interventions like enemas, and surgeons being held up in other OR cases or emergencies. I know nurses that left the department because they thought their children would only need daycare for an hour or so and this just turned out not to be the case. Good luck on your decision!

ewattsjt · Nov 4, 2007

The ultimate decision is yours. No one knows you better than yourself. Here are the facts listed so you can see them from someone else's format.

Our endoscopies are finished on time for the most part. It is occasionally that one would have to work over. You should ask the facility about that.

Financially you are looking at this:

Job 1 per year minus childcare is about $57,112. minus 1 week in holidays

Job 2 per year is about $40,800. minus 1 week in holidays

The monetary difference is about $16,312 per year or $1,359 per month.

The differences in your family life would include getting to spend more time with your kids as well as your kids spending more time with you. Realistically by the time you pick them up from job one and get them home, you will spend 3 or 4 hours of time with them which only a fraction will be quality time. With job 2, that time will increase.

Here is what I did in a similar situation.

I am a man and I worked a shift configuration when my children were at home (babies), in pre-school and in elementary school. It allowed me to be home with them over half the time. I hated the shift configuration but I loved spending the time with my children. My children may not remember what I sacrificed but I have the memories and I was able to instill my ideas, beliefs and morals etc... instead of what they may learn from the sitters. I am a Christian so instilling my beliefs in and of God was important to me.

How did my children turn out? One is currently in college majoring in psychology and minoring in missionary. He goes on missions every summer and is preaching on externs at a local church. One daughter is a junior in high school and is planning to become a veterinarian (honor student). She drives 30 min one way to a church she really loves and has been on two mission trips. My other daughter is a sophomore and does not have an idea of what she wants to become. She does realize the importance of good grades and is in a college prep/honors program (honor student). She has been on one mission trip.

The reason I am telling my children's accomplishments is that instructors/child care providers can instill the idea that simply passing is perfectly acceptable. When I was in college, I substitute taught. I will never forget how one teacher was telling the class how C and D were still good grades and it didn't matter because no one ever looks at the grades. Having the extra time with my children, I was able to dispel this notion before it was implanted.

So for myself, I would choose being with my children over the money. There will be time for money when they are in upper grades and do not need as much guidance.

ajaxgirl · Nov 4, 2007

me personally i would choose the endoscopy for the job preference itself, but because i always wanted to be w/my kiddos i know that i would have to go w/oral surgery. the only way i could be swayed is if the after school program was so above and beyond superior learning/creative and most of all a safe environment it just isn't worth it.

that pretty much sums up how i feel.

ajaxgirl · Nov 4, 2007

The ultimate decision is yours. No one knows you better than yourself. Here are the facts listed so you can see them from someone else's format.
Our endoscopies are finished on time for the most part. It is occasionally that one would have to work over. You should ask the facility about that.
Financially you are looking at this:
Job 1 per year minus childcare is about $57,112. minus 1 week in holidays
Job 2 per year is about $40,800. minus 1 week in holidays
The monetary difference is about $16,312 per year or $1,359 per month.
The differences in your family life would include getting to spend more time with your kids as well as your kids spending more time with you. Realistically by the time you pick them up from job one and get them home, you will spend 3 or 4 hours of time with them which only a fraction will be quality time. With job 2, that time will increase.
Here is what I did in a similar situation.
I am a man and I worked a shift configuration when my children were at home (babies), in pre-school and in elementary school. It allowed me to be home with them over half the time. I hated the shift configuration but I loved spending the time with my children. My children may not remember what I sacrificed but I have the memories and I was able to instill my ideas, beliefs and morals etc... instead of what they may learn from the sitters. I am a Christian so instilling my beliefs in and of God was important to me.
How did my children turn out? One is currently in college majoring in psychology and minoring in missionary. He goes on missions every summer and is preaching on externs at a local church. One daughter is a junior in high school and is planning to become a veterinarian (honor student). She drives 30 min one way to a church she really loves and has been on two mission trips. My other daughter is a sophomore and does not have an idea of what she wants to become. She does realize the importance of good grades and is in a college prep/honors program (honor student). She has been on one mission trip.
The reason I am telling my children's accomplishments is that instructors/child care providers can instill the idea that simply passing is perfectly acceptable. When I was in college, I substitute taught. I will never forget how one teacher was telling the class how C and D were still good grades and it didn't matter because no one ever looks at the grades. Having the extra time with my children, I was able to dispel this notion before it was implanted.
So for myself, I would choose being with my children over the money. There will be time for money when they are in upper grades and do not need as much guidance.

Thanks, I feel the same way. I have never used daycare, I love being the one to pick them up and hear about their day.

CT Pixie, BSN, RN · Nov 5, 2007

I would go with job #2 with less hours but more money per hour.

I am fortunate enough to work from home for the company i work for. I set my own hours and I am available for my kids day and night. My youngest is in 1st grade and the other is a sophmore in high school. I've been working from home since the little one was born. I treasure the time I have been able to have with my kids. i know not all are as fortunate to be able to be home with their kids.

When my older one was born and for the first 9 yrs of her life I wasn't able to stay home with her. she was in after school day care that her school provided for about 1 1/2 hrs after school ended. But when her little sister was born when she was 9, I was able to be home for her. Is she any worse for the wear..nope. But she always says she liked it much better when she came home and I was there.

The ultimate choice is yours. If it were me, I'd take the job where I could still pay my bills AND be there for the kids.

maeyken · Nov 11, 2007

Do you have a strong preference for one type of nursing over the other, or are both equally appealing to you?

How important is it to you that you are home to pick up your kids?

How flexible is either job regarding holidays, days off, sick time or absent days, etc.?

If it was me in your situation, I would no question go with the oral surgeon's nurse job, because for me it is a high priority to be able to be home with my kids (when I have some... I have none yet), and also because I don't like endoscopy much. Also, the difference in pay is not that huge, after you take into account the extra costs for childcare.

Have you decided what you are going to do yet?

TracyB,RN, RN · Nov 21, 2007

Ohhh man.. I would so pick job #2. But that's just me.