{"id":28,"date":"2013-10-15T09:59:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T09:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mursinary.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2013-10-15T09:59:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T09:59:22","slug":"slow-start-for-a-long-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mursinary.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Slow start for a long journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting around for an interview is becoming frustrating. My goal of leaving on an assignment before November is becoming fantasy and with winter quickly approaching, I have to address the fact that my car only has summer tires on it. A decent set of all seasons will set be back around $700, money that I don&#8217;t exactly have. The jobs that I&#8217;m looking at aren&#8217;t paying like I thought they would either. Add to the mess that the difficulty I&#8217;m having even getting an interview, and you have one anxious Murse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s always easier to give up and become complacent then it is to follow through and go for it. And going for it is what I intend on doing. I just have to make sure that I can make it work. I worry that I&#8217;m being too picky and that my recruiter is getting tired of me. I worry that my room mate is tired of me being around. I worry that I&#8217;m not going to be able to pay all of my bills. I worry that whatever assignment I end up on will be terrible. So many worries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m compelled to go, though. There is something deep inside of me that keeps telling me to go forward. I like to think that I will travel until I find where it is that I should stop and settle in, but I also worry that I will never find that place, that I will feel compelled to keep moving and never feel satisfied anywhere. Perhaps the problem isn&#8217;t with the places that I&#8217;ve lived, perhaps the problem is with me.<br \/>\nOr is it a problem?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two more nights of work until I have a few days off. I&#8217;ve been trying to pick up extra shifts, and it&#8217;s hard because I keep getting shifts at Mursette&#8217;s hospital. I know that it must be absolutely terrible for her to see me. I have some idea of what she must be going through. Some idea, although she has a tendency for the dramatic, so I&#8217;m sure that it&#8217;s much worse than I&#8217;d like to admit to myself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have so much to do in the next few weeks. I have to switch bills around, shop for insurance, and figure out what to do with my 403B. It would be nice to be able to retire someday, after all. I&#8217;m also planning my own birthday party this year as well. Planning might be a bit of an exaggeration, I&#8217;ve given my friends a time and a bar to meet me at. The rest will be winged. I think that this year my present to myself is a hotel room. It&#8217;s probably a waste of money, but I think not worrying about driving home will be a treat as will hung over room service. I&#8217;m waffling a bit right now though, as I&#8217;ve had offers to drive me home after drinking. I quite like the idea of a room to myself though&#8230; I think I&#8217;m going to go through with it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, what do the next few weeks hold? I have no idea. I know that I&#8217;m worried, but at least I have a good job right now, making the best money I&#8217;ve ever made in my life. I&#8217;m in a hurry to leave, but I don&#8217;t have to be if I don&#8217;t want to. I&#8217;m trying my best to think this thing through, without passion. To make the best decision I can taking into account the stark reality of my finances and the whisper inside that tells me to pick up and move on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting around for an interview is becoming frustrating. My goal of leaving on an assignment before November is becoming fantasy and with winter quickly approaching, I have to address the fact that my car only has summer tires on it. A decent set of all seasons will set be back around $700, money that I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mursinary.com\/?p=28\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slow start for a long journey<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mursinary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mursinary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mursinary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mursinary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mursinary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mursinary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.mursinary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mursinary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mursinary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mursinary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}