Nonalcoholic

My recruiter is urging me to go reserves instead of active duty, due to the fact that word on the street is that there will be few if any nurses hired into the active duty nurse corps for fy2014 and that they will call up interested reservists instead of making new accessions... not the plan I had in mind, but I am seriously considering it. I don't know if I can hold out another 6 mos to a year for a decision from up the chain... Ugghh! Anybody else getting this intel?

Hey Guys! I got a packet in too, no news from the recruiters except for mention of the shutdown slowing down civilian clerical stuff. Hope this is over soon... got my very supportive wife and family in a holding pattern until we hear... hope to see you guys at OTS!

Longtime reader, first time poster. I am a new grad nurse who has now taken and failed the nclex twice. Personal distractions notwithstanding, I am about to take the test again in a week. Feeling like it has been too long since I did anything nursey, and practice testing is not consistently above a 60%. Have taken Kaplan course, ATI, Silvestri, Mosby's, NCSBN, PearsonVUE and all in all over 10,000 (yes there are four zeros) questions in the last 4 months. ATI predictor before the first test was at 90% chance of passing the first time. I have lost job opportunities because of these failures and I am feeling the strain of financial and emotional stressors. I have always been a can-do resilient kind of person and an excellent student and failing the NCLEX twice has both humbled me and driven me to despair. The last time I failed, I just picked myself up and starting studying again the very next day. WHAT ELSE CAN I DO??? If I fail again, the state requires me to take a remediation course (except nobody knows what that is, because 87% of nursing students pass the first time). Is God telling me to give up nursing? Just having a moment of extreme self doubt. Wish I had a magic bullet to crush this test and be over it! Staying positive, but unsure... that's okay, right?