working as a non-nurse personnel until you find a nursing job ?

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I am an RN, have one and a half year of acute hospital experience and one year of LTC experience but currently have been unemployed since early this year. At the first few months, I was eagerly searching for a new job but after a few months I gave up searching a job and have taken a vacation because I thought that all the effort to find a job might be in vein under this economy. But now (after almost 4 months past) finally I realize that I need to re-start finding a job. But it looks like the economic situation stays still the same and finding a job is still hard.

I am also temporarily losing an interest to work as an RN, and I am getting interested in working as being a something else other than being a nurse. I know I need to find a nursing job eventually but I also think that if I cannot find a nursing job at this moment, finding a non-nursing job might be a temporal option. I can continue search for a nursing job while I am working.

Do you think it is a good idea to work in the non-nursing field temporarily for a while? Or do you think this would just delay the return as a nurse because of possibility of time required to learn a new non-nursing job? Just applying a nursing job until finding one would be better?

Is there somebody doing/thinking the same thing as me? (is working as a non-nurse personnel until you find a nursing job).