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I agree, you should not be doing what you do not want to be doing. If you hate your job then you will most likely not do it correctly, there is no arguing that. I plan to stay in these two part time jobs, finding what I think fits me, and look into also working at a hospital in 6-12 months. Regardless of anything I have always wanted / think with student loans I will need to work a full time 3 day a week job and then also work a part time job, I was just raised in a ridiculously hard working family. So I am by no means ditching jobs in 6 months just when the hospitals start hiring. I made the decision to move out here and my spouse is in school and I have 90k+ in loans to start to repay this month, so I don't have the option to just not work until march. It is find a job or move back to NY. This may not be the Residency program type of hospital job I initially was seeking out, but I am working as both a charge nurse at one job and a pre-op/PACU nurse at the other, which I think will give me two very different experiences and both which I would not take if I was not genuinely interested / wanting to do it. I could easily move back to NY and get the new grad hospital job I want, but I have found another option that I am just as happy with because I am going to learn and be so excited to be working as an RN. I think that it is important that you make sure you are going to be happy in the position you apply / accept. Every individual needs to do what is best for them and needs to evaluate how happy they would be in certain situations. As a professional you can only hope that nurses will make sure they aren't just accepting positions without thinking of the consequences if they know they hate it from the start. But this is also why most institutions have in place that they evaluate you / you evaluate them after 30 days in order to make sure it is a good fit for both you and them. Regardless I know this isn't the situation for me personally, I am absolutely thrilled and so excited for my jobs. I am not the type of person to half-*** anything, so that is not even an option for me with any job I have. I hope that new grads aren't so desperate to do this because you are right, everyone in that situation would suffer. I was not trying to encourage this behavior in anyway. I just wanted it to be known that there are jobs out there for new grads. If people are posting that there aren't jobs and they haven't been able to find anything for a months to a year...they should also add that they are waiting for their top jobs to become available. Point is.. if you aren't hell bent on holding out for the hospitals right now, there are jobs!!! Trust me, my dream when I started nursing school was to get in a residency program with the best of the best, and I had the ability, but I decided between that or moving. Life happens. I decided to move, and realize I am in my early 20s, I have so many years ahead of me to do anything and everything I want with my career. So for right now I am extremely happy where I am and with my jobs and I am not looking back! :-) Good luck, you can do it!

Hey guys, just wanted to update since I posted this original message. I ended up moving to CO. I moved here officially on SEPT 10th. Let me say this NOW, THERE IS HOPE FOR NEW GRAD RNs here. Please do not be discouraged.... as most of the posts on here are discouraging. For those who had positive things to say / positive experiences, thanks for posting, it made me a little less scared!! :-) I have been here in CO as a new grad for two months. I immediately worked at a flu clinic from the first day of being here, while searching for a job. That is winding down now. Let me assure you, I have no friends here, no contacts of any kind. I have had 3 interviews in the last few weeks, one which was at a hospital for a very awesome position. I was offered two job which I will be taking. I am very excited and so happy that all of the negative talk was not true. Yes, there are limited opportunities right now for new grads, this is true everywhere. Hospitals here for the most part are not hiring again until the spring, this is more unique to this area because of the small vicinity of all the hospitals and the over saturation of RNs. This was sad and disheartening to hear and experience. Days I had free not working I suited up and went to every place I can think of- hospitals of course but also other institutions. For the most part I got the same response from the hospitals that they are simply not hiring or there will be random openings here and there. Do not limit yourself to just hospitals. Look everywhere else you could possibly work as a RN. Do what you have to do, if you don't like that type of nursing leave. Just get the experience, if you like the job, great! If not, go on to do what you want when the hiring picks up. Keep your head up high and APPLY APPLY APPLY. Don't be too picky, and you will get something. It is not as hopeless as it seems. Keep an open mind. You can do it if you persevere and dedicate your time! Good luck!!

Hello all, I want to thank you for all of your comments and advice! It has been very insightful and although the answers are from both spectrums, it has helped hearing from the source what is going on there! Please keep them coming! So I am still undecided! I graduated from my program and did excpetionally well, which I am very excited about. I still do not know what to do as many different factors are going into this decision. With NYS being slow, the earliest I will be able to take the NCLEX is early July. I will be volunteering in the ICU and actively pursing jobs here in NY. However I will also begin looking in CO. I feel it is best that if I am getting good responses from NY hospitals for the job I want in August then I may just stay here for a year then move out. However, things such as cost of living in NYC is a huge factor as I will have a lot of loans to pay off. Moving to some place that is ridiculously more affordable and living with my boyfriend would be a huge help. I am excited to move some where else for a couple of years as I will end up back in this area later in life. I feel like it would be a great change and this is the perfect time to do it. At the same time, I need to weigh the fact if I do not get a job for a few months or more. I am extremely driven and I will have to search within myself to see if I am okay possibly delaying my career for however long it will take me to find a nursing job ( and I would try to get another meaningless job meanwhile although my boyfriends loans will be more than enough to sustain us comfortably). As the market is not GREAT anywhere, the Norm for May grads here to get A JOB (not nec. the one they wanted) is SEPT/OCT/NOVish, but there are some who do not get jobs until DEC/JAN. What it comes down to is there may not be much of a difference time wise. However I also find myself wondering if the prestige of NYC hospitals is worth staying here for a year. So it is still up in the air and honestly I probably won't make a final decision until August. I am still very torn for many reasons but very excited to finally begin my professional life and begin my career! But first it is time to study for the NCLEX!! Please keep the discussion going I would love to hear all and anything you have to say! And THANK YOU AGAIN!

ColoradoRN- Thank you so much for your optimism, I was really starting to get upset. I plan to do all of that and more, trust me being in NYC I know that just filling out online applications will do absolutely nothing! I will absolutely do all that you have said! Thank you so much for the advice! I wish I could get some more information out of you via message but I can't PM haha. Congratulations on graduating and getting a job! :-)

Thank you so much! I am actually mailing in my application tomorrow! I heard it is a great program but super competitive... and I am trying to get ICU shadowing experience in the next few months so I am eligible for the ICU, but it is so tough getting the ability to get hours in the ICU. So we shall see! Thanks for the info!

Onetiredmomma- I am doing that as we speak! Making an excel sheet and will call all nurse recruiters and hospitals I can between class tomorrow! I actually prefer nights so I guess that is a plus! Thank you so much for the advice!

Hi Lizzie, Wow, it really doesn't sound good out there. Thank you for your advice. My program ends next week, I graduate May 16th. I will be taking the NCLEX first week in July. I have just started looking, I will take you advice and begin to contact everyone and anyone I can. I agree, my dream job is the ICU, but I am not opposed to getting experience and settling for med-surg for a year. Other than being accepted to the few residency programs out there, med-surg really seems as the only logical option at this point. Thank you so much. :-/

Hello all! I am looking for some help and guidance from those who know about the RN job market in Colorado! I am a soon to be graduate from New York University! I have high expectations and aspirations for my career. I have heard that the job market is not promise out in Colorado and I would like any advice / help / information about what the job market is like for newly graduated RNs. I have grown up in NY my whole life, and I am very much looking forward to this exciting change of scenery. My boyfriend will be going to graduate school, so we are planning on moving at the end of July/beginning of august. I have done very well in my nursing program and although the job market is not great in NYC, but I would undoubtedly be able to get a job here.....and I would be nervous if this is not the case in CO. We would be living in the Golden area, but I would be willing to travel to Denver, Fort Collins, Boulder, Colorado Springs, and any other area which is an hour / hour and half away. Please let me know ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING you know about RN jobs here, along with any advise you have! I want to move very badly but I need to make smart decisions and make sure there is a job market out there for me, I give myself until the end of September to land a job because my loan repayments start in November. Thank you SO SO SO much!

Hey everyone!! I was accepted a week ago!! I am soooo excited!! Jan 19th is coming quickly though!! I am doing everyyything on loans so this should be interesting!!! eeeek! Anybody looking to move into an off campus apt?! Let me know, I have been looking at places. Send me a pm... let me know what you are thinking!! yayy can't wait to meet everyone... congrats congrats!!

hey pyeung2, I was just wondering how your first semester is going? I was accepted for the IT for jan 2010,( because of that computer pre-req) But I am planning of doing it as fast as possible / being bumped into the accelerated program in june. I just wanted to know your thoughts about how it is going so far, it seems hard to find out info on this school from student perspective / how reputable it is. Thanks!!