Ready with agency to travel, but having reservations

[alwayslearnin]

Greetings,

I have signed up with a travel agency but am starting to have second thoughts. The people said, "if you are looking for regular work that you can depend on, maybe travel nursing is not for you."Well, I do need to depend upon a pretty regular income. Thye also said they review insurance at the first of every month and if it doesn't appear that you are really trying to get more work between contracts, or are turning down alot, they will consider that and could stop your insurance after 4 weeks. They said I could sign on for cobra, but that is waaaayyyyy too exensive.

So now I am starting to have some doubts. I tried to get a sense of how long the average time is between assignments, but all I got was that varies depending on the needs at any given time.

So fellow travelers, is this your experience? Is this the information you were told? Do you go out with the risk of going for extended periods between contracts? Thoughts???.

I would appreciate any experience or thoughts about this.

Thank you.

alwayslearnin

[Reigen]

The responses you stated, makes me think more of a local per diem type of nursing rather than travel nursing, since travel nursing involves a contract with a time lenght usually for 13 weeks. Work between contracts, most traveler's start seeking the next contract when there are about 6 weeks left on the current one. Telephone interviews, and making sure that you have everything up to date is time consuming, when you are on an assignment, and have a work schedule to maintain, and also searching for the next job.

When you travel you need at least 3 months of living expenses, plus more for any emergencies that may arise, ie:car repairs, travel expenses, pet deposits (if you have pets), and other miscellanous items that always seems to come up.

I travel, and sometimes I am not able to secure a contract before my current one ends, and I then will do local per diem shift work until I can obtain a contract. I have a seperate savings account that is my travel account that I can access quickly for those emergencies. I have another account with that 3 to 6 months living expenses in there. I also have other retiirement saving accounts, along with my regular checking account.

Cobra, yes, if there is more than 1 week "off" between contracts, then you can expect to need to cobra the insurance unless you have your own policy. or policies.

Ask more question from this company, as it seems more local per diem type to me, rather than a true just travel nursing angency.