Should I quit my job, sell my house and sail to Hawaii?

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  1. Should I quit job, sell house, move to Hawaii?

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      Yes!
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      No!
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      Why are you asking a bunch of strangers on the internet?

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OK, just kidding. Wondering why people ask total strangers on the internet for advise regarding major life changes. I don't want to name names, but a lot of people come to this site and ask questions better answered by people closer to the situation...

Specializes in hospice.

[h=1]The thing is, you SHOULD quit your job, sell your house and sail to Hawaii. Everyone should. Every single person on Earth would be happier if they would just realize that.[/h]

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Ahhh, ok, I get it now! Just a lighthearted thread of friendly banter that goes BOTH ways. Silly me, from the looks of those first several threads I thought this was yet another demeaning thread fueled by the usual suspects to put down the noobs....but I guess we've had enough of those threads for the week...amma right?? :roflmao:

Oops, I meant...am. I. right.?

Guess I could stick around long enough to throw out a few snarky remarks about not peeing for 18 hours straight and cry about the young, fit blonde who keeps trying to push me into retirement...but I believe I'll just mosey on back to the student section where the mood is actually a little lighter.

I've got plenty of humor...even that dark stuff that the "seasoned" nurses think they've cornered the market on...but I guess the posters here just aren't doing it for me tonight? Hmmmmm.....

Oh well, c'est la vie! It's all good fun!

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Specializes in Forensic Psych.
*lights a corncob pipe*

Crusty the Old Bat here, to tell alla you youngins and grasshoppers jist how it's gonna be. I've been wiping butts, eating my young, wearing my old cap from my diploma program in 1873 and shaming new grads on AN since dinosaurs roamed the nursing units. I've fought management, wowed surveyors, survived 28373618 State inspections, precepted 823776278 students, saved 2938949837364883 lives, had both knees, both hips, and both shoulders replaced, have titanium feet, asbestos hands, and had a scan of the striations on my 837738 gallon bladder blown up and hung in the Museum of Modern Art.

I've seen it all. You name it, I've suctioned rats out of newborn's lungs in the NICU, I've survived swirling vortexes of C-Diff diarrhea that swallowed whole SNFs, I've straight cathed 1300 lb 90 year olds with a coffee stirrer from the break room. I remember when we wore iron corsets, had to crank the phone, charted with a quill by candle light and never had a break for more than a swig of Hibiclens for lunch.

You ungrateful brats these days have no idea what awaits you in the Grand Guignol torture chamber of poop and fluids that is nursing. It's been 68 years for me and I have one good eye left and need an ear trumpet to hear all you new grads whining incessantly, on top of the squeal of my 56K modem connecting over dialup. Let me tell you. *gestures with moderator's scepter* You are not a special snowflake! You will not get a medal just for showing up! You will not be allowed to ask questions that haven't been asked before! Learn to search the forums and use Google now, grasshoppers, before misfortune befalls you! Moo hahahaha!

;)

I officially never have to read AN again. ?

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.
Ahhh, ok, I get it now!

Glad you caught the boat! Hawaii here we come! and you can just pee off the side of the boat every 18 hours

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I think you should sail away to a tropical paradise, and when you come back in 15 years go straight back to work without a refresher, cause nursing won't have changed whilst you were away.

Ah, "special snowflake" I've missed that one, haven't used it in a while.

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ANRN2B,

How dare you attack me personally by not laughing at my post in this thread. I have been here forever and the wisdom just pours out of me and you are so ungrateful not to laugh at me. It is why you will never be successful. I shouldn't have to put up with this abuse. Laugh at me or else I will report you to the moderators.

When you have the wisdom I have you will know I am worthy of the laughs of everyone.

I am going to pluck my nose hairs, ear hair and the three hairs from the mole on my chin. When I come back you better have posted a LOL that quotes me or it is on like Donkey Kong (a video game in the pre PlayStation world).

(Obviously sarcasm for those who don't get it. No ANRN2B were harmed in the making of this post )

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Specializes in Critical Care.
I'm paralyzed in a wheelchair, deaf in both ears and legally blind. I also can't do math, have a 1.7 GPA and don't like people. Should I go to nursing school? My dreeeeeeam is to be a nurse!!!!!!!!

This will of course be followed by 33 pre-pre-nursing students telling the person to NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS!! I can tell you make a really good nurse!!!!!! Don't let those old ugly nurses tell you different. They're just jealous and afraid you'll steal their jobs. Besides, there's all kinds of nurses. You don't need to walk or see or hear for every nursing job!!!

Come on now, that's just mean! Everyone has a dream. lol

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Specializes in Critical Care.

No you don't want to move to Hawaii. Keep it special as a vacation hideaway! Plus it's too expensive anyway! lol

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One I always like is... "Will I like being a nurse?" I always think to myself, only YOU can answer that, not some random person on the internet who may or may not be a nurse and could very well be pulling your chain when they tell you "It's the worst thing they have ever done."

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Specializes in Trauma, Teaching.

No, Wheels, you will not like being a nurse. Because you are likely younger, prettier and vastly more intelligent than me since you are such a special snowflake... and will expect me to retire to make space for you, unless you deign to let me stick around so you can tell me which patients need the poop mobile STAT as you are just too advanced in all your new technological nursing to ever have to deal with excrement.

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Specializes in LTC.

Nah , not Guam. There are huge spiders everywhere.:nailbiting: Belize maybe? English is very common and the land is at a reasonable price from what I hear.

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Nah , not Guam. There are huge spiders everywhere.:nailbiting: Belize maybe? English is very common and the land is at a reasonable price from what I hear.

Belize, where you can find drunk UK soldiers hitting on anything with a pulse? I think I'd rather the spiders.

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