Re: Happy News!!!

Oh Melody - I am SO incredibly delighted for you dear!   Fixin' to go out
back and do a happy dance for ya!   Marvelous news indeed.  You were
certainly due for a break IMO!   LOL

On 3/21/08, Melody <mhobertm@excite.com> wrote:
>
> Well, Good Friday is turning out to be a very good day for me. Not only
> spiritually...this is of course, one of my three favorite days in the
> year...when the fullness of God's love is revealed for us all.
> But...beyond that: I got a new
>
> job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Twenty three years of bedside nursing are almost over...woohoo!!!!!
>
>
> My brother's death has served as a catalyst for me in many ways...it
> really brought home to me that life is too short to continue doing
> something that has never, not once in twenty three years made me happy.
> I knew 3 months before graduating from nursing school that this was
> something I was really going to hate, but after 5 years and $25,000 I
> felt stuck. And really, nursing has provided me with a good living...it
> pays the mortgage and buys the groceries and supports my family. But my
> heart has never really been in it. Which is a shame, because I am rather
> good at it, if I do say so myself.
>
>
> But for the past several years I have felt more and more trapped...and
> more and more like my soul was dying of unhappiness. And so a couple of
> weeks ago I decided to quit whining about how much I hate my job and I
> made a decision to leave it. Either I would find a new job in a
> different field or I was going to quit working entirely, take my
> retirement fund and go back to school. When miracle of miracles, I found
> a listing at my hospital for a nursing job that is all about computers
> and involves no patient care, is Monday through Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m., no
> weekends, and no holidays. I am so excited I am almost beside myself!!!
>
>
> So the countdown to my last days as a bedside psychiatric nurse begins:
> April 19th will be the last day I ever have to get spit at,
> hit/kicked/hair pulled, or sworn at again; I will never have to give
> another shot to anyone or force anyone to take medications or eat or
> clean up various body fluids again. Yeah for me!! Happy dances all over
> the place!!
>
>
> Okay...okay: now that I've got that out of my system I can go back to
> being my usual stoic Midwestern self! Except that I can't seem to stop
> smiling and giggles keep sneaking up on me!
>
>
>
> Blessings in Christ's mercy,
>
> Melody
>
> Work for the Lord:  the pay isn't much but the retirement is out of this
> world!
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
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