So school is finally over! My time is spent prepping for boards, searching for a nursing job, getting set up in the new apartment, and trying to find a steady job in the mean time. With everything that has been going on I completely forgot about a number of things and some of them just happened to be important things. They are slowly getting crossed off the list.
The move into the new apartment went smoothly. Even though my sister bitched and moaned about the heat, that was really the only low point. We had more than enough people come out to help move our furniture and eat lunch with us. Our one friend set up our internet after the MASSIVE failure of a Comcast tech that was sent here. He couldn't figure out how to work my laptop or the fact that he needed to connect everything to the router as well...Yeah, epic fail. Since then we have just been getting everything set up and getting all the little things that we didn't think about. Our most recent addition to the apartment a very nice round dining room table. It is a glass top and has 4 chairs. It fits nicely in the far corner of the living room. He now wants place mats for the table to protect it from food and people.
There is more news other than the new apartment. I found out on Tuesday that I lost my job while I was on my way to work. The only warning that I had was to call my DM at 1pm. She called me at 1130 and told me about the new DM and districts and how they no longer are utilizing part time employees, effective immediately. So, there I was driving to a job that no longer existed with out a pay check wasting gas. All I could think about was "Yay, no more scrubs and walking in circles!" Then I started thinking, "I have no pay check which means I have no money..." Even though it was a pitiful excuse for a pay check it was still income. Maybe three hours later, I had on some freshly ironed pants and shirt, freshly printed resumes in hand, and dress shoes on hoofing it around South Side Works looking for a job. I was offered two interviews for the next day and then two job offers on the spot. I took the second offer but until I actually start working there I will not know if I made a mistake in my choice or not. I kind of feel like I did even though the advice I received was very sounds and made a lot of sense. I really am just questioning if going for the resume building possibilities and the extremely slightly hire starting salary was really better than going for the Store Manager that has had employees in nursing school/prepping to take their boards and understands what they are going through. Only time will tell.
The job search is also yielding ZERO results or offers for nursing positions. I have until the end of September to be offered a position and accept it for the tuition forgiveness program to kick in. Even though that is still a little over two months, all I can think is "It is ONLY A LITTLE OVER TWO MONTHS!!" I am planning to take my exam at the end of August. Right now prep is going okay. I want my scores to get a little more steady in the 70's before I schedule my exam. I will see where I am in two weeks and if they are better then I will schedule for the end of August and if not, I will schedule for September. I know that the school is really big on students taking their boards ASAP but they are also really harsh on us about passing the first time. I would rather not pay another two hundred dollars to take a test but I also know that the school cares more about their numbers than anything else.
Other than those few set backs, everything else has been really good for us. We have the apartment pretty much set up the way we want it and are getting settled quite nicely. This was a great apartment to chose for our first place. It is smaller than a house but it is bigger than the area we had in the house and the other apartments that we looked at. We do have one really loud neighbor but I will get over that. The running route that has come with the new place is pretty awesome. The loft that we have gives us more space because he can have his office up there and it is not taking up the extra space that we have in the living room. Now, if I could just find a place for my nursing books it would be perfect!
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