The Job Hunt

UPDATE: I'm so excited to update that the Lord provided a job! Not just any job, but He went far above and beyond anything I could have imagined. I found out on Monday that I will be a Pediatric ICU nurse!! Praise the Lord...HE was faithful...yet again! I'm so thankful that He never tires of teaching me how to trust in Him. Thank you so much for praying!!

In 35 days, I will walk across the stage once again and receive a second BS degree. I’m excited, no doubt! I’m also pretty anxious at the thought of being in the “real world” for the first time. Since Kindergarten, my life has revolved around semesters, spring breaks, and summer vacations, and shortly that will all end. With as much as I complain about wanting to be finished with school, I do enjoy being a student….I REALLY enjoy being a student!! In fact, I’ll give myself 4 months before I am trying to figure out how/when to apply for graduate school. But at this moment, I am completely burned out. I don’t want to study for another exam…present another pointless presentation….attend another lecture. I want to graduate, and I want to get a job.

Which leads me to…

The job hunt.

It’s frustrating to say the very least. Since I have been in nursing school, everyone has spoken of this so-called “nursing shortage”. While I know this may be true as a whole, let me give you a little bit of advice….please don’t speak of it to ANY of us who are going to be new nurses! It’s the biggest lie for us, and it has been so deceiving! It is EXTREMELY difficult to find a nursing job as a new graduate nurse in San Antonio…or Houston…or Dallas…or any larger city. Sure, there are plenty of nursing jobs available, but you have to have experience. The only way to get a job in one of the bigger hospital systems is through an internship or residency program. The problem is only {about} 10% of the applicants to those programs actually get accepted. One of the hospital systems I’ve been most interested in working for isn’t hiring ANY new graduate nurses into their pediatric areas right now. GRRR….

I mention this because the closer graduation gets and I don’t have a job, the more anxious and worried I become. I’m a worrier and a planner, and when I don’t have things planned out, I worry! Makes sense, huh?! On the other hand, there has never been a time in my life where the Lord has not been faithful and provided for my every need. It’s so hard to trust sometimes. I feel like the Lord has had to teach me this lesson of trust in His timing and His perfect will over and over again. Will I ever learn?? I hope so….I want to….I NEED TO! I’m so thankful, though, that the Lord is even faithful in continuing to teach me to trust His perfect plan. I’m thankful that He never tires of teaching me and making me more like Him.

So, if you are reading this, would you be praying? Would you pray that I would be able to rest and trust that the Lord is STILL faithful even when I don’t have my job planned out? Would you pray that I would lay my worries and fears at His feet?

Thank you so much!