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

[Emergent]

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...

[wooh, BSN, RN]

"I've failed the NCLEX four times what should I do"

You're obviously a great nurse!! Don't let this stop you!!! I took it today for the seventh time and want to know if the PVT really works?

[duskyjewel]

"I've failed the NCLEX four times what should I do"

My personal favourite

Does it make me super-mean that I always think, "Just don't be a nurse?"

I guess I just believe that after the third strike, the universe is trying to tell you something.

[duskyjewel]

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.

We can't do that....then the island would become overpopulated and capsize.

If you think that's ridiculous, a congressman actually thought it could happen to Guam so...... Rep. Hank Johnson Thinks Guam Could Capsize | Mother Jones

[ixchel]

*insert misplaced comment here about completely irrelevant topic by person who doesn't know how to start their own thread.*

[duskyjewel]

I took my school notebook, cellphone, 12 pens, calculator, and an ipad with NCLEX flash card app to the testing center, and got into my locker during the bathroom break. They caught me looking but I wasn't RREEEEEAAAAALLLLLLYYYY cheating! They can't actually cancel my test and bar me from licensure for realz, can they? I mean, it was just one little mistake!

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

I am offended!! O.FEN.DED!!

I am NOT a stranger on the internet!!

I am just strange on the internet......

[uRNmyway, ASN, RN]

Wooh

"You should probably stick to stripping and quit nursing. After all, shifts go much smoother when only men are working. Less drama and complaining. Women should stay where they belong, stripping and home making sandwiches."

LMBO! Ok, I know everyone keeps saying this, but I think you win for today. First post to make me snort, glad I wasn't trying to drink anything. Been on AN long enough to know better!

[NurseGirl525, ASN, RN]

I went to Hawaii this summer. They are hiring nurses over there right now. Lol. I was looking at what would be considered a slum apartment in my area. I was like, I could probably afford this. Then I looked at the cars parked out front. A corvette, Mercedes, a BMW, among other expensive cars. I realized, nope, I couldn't even afford a slum apartment here. But apparently, it's cheaper to live there if you are a resident I was told?

[Raviepoo]

Oh well. There goes my plan for "Retirement." I guess I won't be working like a dog until I drop while my husband sips Mai Tais on the beach. Rats!

I went to Hawaii this summer. They are hiring nurses over there right now. Lol. I was looking at what would be considered a slum apartment in my area. I was like, I could probably afford this. Then I looked at the cars parked out front. A corvette, Mercedes, a BMW, among other expensive cars. I realized, nope, I couldn't even afford a slum apartment here. But apparently, it's cheaper to live there if you are a resident I was told?

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

Hey, lets all just go part time on our jobs, become a giant troupe of strippers--I can see it now the naughty nurse nights at the Strip-a-go-go Lounge will be SOLD OUT!! and PG scores will be at their highest level EVER!!

Option a reality show, maybe some get well picture cards that is against HIPPO to send to patients, a calender to put in the rest rooms, we all have to wear bright pink or red thongs under whites to make sure the patients recognize us, and when doctors treat us like dirt remind them of how better we did on the lap dance he requested the night before....

THEN we shall all inhabit a private carribean island of our own choosing, where it does not snow, therefore, no special snowflakes....

[Biosciencegeek]

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

Haaaahaha! Great point. I forgot about that.

[Biosciencegeek]

*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!

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you just made my month!

Asbestos hands! Baaahahahahahaha! I read this post with sinuses full of Maxwell House after reading the 1st paragraph. That's just good stuff right there!