Nevran

Thanks guys. I don't know why I let negative people get me down. She acts like I have no morals because I applied to places I only know superficially. She's able to make these statements because she's a rural CNA who knows everyone at the one hospital she's applying at.

I am about to graduate from an A.A.S. program in nursing. I have begun the application process to multiple hospitals in cities near here. I have applied to about 16 various hospitals in several surrounding cities. The reason I am applying to several cities is begun currently I live in a very, very rural town where I go to school and it is about equal distance from all these cities. Now, about a month after beginning applying, I am called in for an interview at a well-reviewed community hospital on the outskirts of one of these cities. It isn't "ideal." It isn't one of the major teaching hospitals that I've applied to. But it's a well-respected community hospital that is fully accredited and has better than average rankings on US News and World Report. So I tell my friend about it and she goes "WOW. Are you just sending out random resumes? Shouldnt you think about where you want to work instead of just applying for a job?" As if it were so easy that I could just send ONE application to the ONE place I want to work most and be assured that I would get hired there? Seriously. I told her that I am applying to many places so that I can fallback on something even if it isn't ideal. Even if it isn't the best place to work in the world. She, on the other hand, is applying to ONE hospital. It's the hospital she is currently a CNA at and she said she isn't applying anywhere else. She goes "I actually know the places that *I* apply at." Just because I haven't been to the place I have an interview at (its 2 hours away) she thinks I shouldn't even go. Can anyone comment on this? I didn't know that applying to several hospitals was so out of the norm! She also thinks it's very odd that I'm willing to relocate out of the rural town we live in (middle of nowhere) to take a job in a mid-sized city, which I would like to go to school at anyway for my BSN.