Re: Happy News!!!

Kitty: I think also pretty much anyone has at least sometime in their
life had a job which made them feel de-valued and unappreciated...I'm
just not sure many of them would have put up with it for 20+
years...what does that say about me? I'm not sure I want to know. ;-)



Blessings in Christ's mercy,

Melody 

Work for the Lord:  the pay isn't much but the retirement is out of this world!

 --- On Sat 03/22, Kitty < kmrsy@comcast.net > wrote:
From: Kitty [mailto: kmrsy@comcast.net]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:28:09 -0400
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Happy News!!!

from Melody > admin. is another thankless job...but isn't that the
nature <br>of the beast in all of nursing?<br><br>this from someone who
knows from where-of she speaks re thankless jobs.<br><br>Kitty<br>neIN,
Zone 5<br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "Melody " ><br>> And
Cathy--you are right, admin. is another thankless job...but isn't that
<br>> the nature of the beast in all of nursing?<br>><br>> Blessings in
Christ's mercy,<br>><br>> Melody<br>><br>> Work for the Lord: the pay
isn't much but the retirement is out of this <br>> world!<br>><br>> ---
On Fri 03/21, Judy Browning < judylee@lewiston.com > wrote:<br>> From:
Judy Browning [mailto: judylee@lewiston.com]<br>> To:
gardenchat@hort.net<br>> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:13:12 -0700<br>>
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Happy News!!!<br>><br>> Good for you. I enjoy
bedside nursing but feel like I need to make a<br>> change <br>soon.
Hospice was a great fit for me and I would have retired<br>> from there,
<br>but am back on

the surgical floor. Too much lifting and<br>> bending for me
now.<br>Judy b<br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From:<br>> "Melody "
<mhobertm@excite.com><br>To: <gardenchat@hort.net><br>Sent:<br>> Friday,
March 21, 2008 3:51 PM<br>Subject: [CHAT] Happy<br>>
News!!!<br><br><br>> Well, Good Friday is turning out to be a very
good<br>> day for me. Not only<br>> spiritually...this is of course, one
of my<br>> three favorite days in the<br>> year...when the fullness of
God's love<br>> is revealed for us all.<br>> But...beyond that: I got a
new<br>><br>>
job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br>><br>>
Twenty three years of bedside nursing are almost<br>>
over...woohoo!!!!!<br>><br>><br>> My brother's death has served as
a<br>> catalyst for me in many ways...it<br>> really brought home to me
that<br>> life is too short to<br>><br>> continue doing<br>> something
that has never, not once in twenty three<br>> years made me happy.<br>>

I knew 3 months before graduating from nursing<br>> school that this
was<br>> something I was really going to hate, but<br>> after 5 years
and $25,000 I<br>> felt stuck. And really, nursing has<br>> provided me
with a good living...it<br>> pays the mortgage and buys the<br>>
groceries and supports my family. But my<br>> heart has never
really<br>> been in it. Which is a shame, because I am rather<br>> good
at it, if I<br>> do say so myself.<br>><br>><br>> But for the past
several years I have<br>> felt more and more trapped...and<br>> more and
more like my soul was<br>> dying of unhappiness. And so a couple of<br>>
weeks ago I decided to<br>> quit whining about how much I hate my job
and I<br>> made a decision to<br>> leave it. Either I would find a new
job in a<br>> different field or I<br>> was going to quit working
entirely, take my<br>> retirement fund and go<br>> back to school. When
miracle of miracles, I found<br>> a listing at my<br>><br>> hospital for
a nursing job

that is all about computers<br>> and involves<br>> no patient care, is
Monday through Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m., no<br>><br>> weekends, and no
holidays. I am so excited I am almost beside<br>>
myself!!!<br>><br>><br>> So the countdown to my last days as a
bedside<br>> psychiatric nurse begins:<br>> April 19th will be the last
day I ever<br>> have to get spit at,<br>> hit/kicked/hair pulled, or
sworn at again; I<br>> will never have to give<br>> another shot to
anyone or force anyone to<br>> take medications or eat or<br>> clean up
various body fluids again. Yeah<br>> for me!! Happy dances all over<br>>
the place!!<br>><br>><br>><br>> Okay...okay: now that I've got that out
of my system I can go back<br>> to<br>> being my usual stoic Midwestern
self! Except that I can't seem<br>> to stop<br>> smiling and giggles
keep sneaking up on<br>> me!<br>><br>><br>><br>> Blessings in Christ's
mercy,<br>><br>><br>> Melody<br>><br>> Work for the Lord: the pay isn't
much but the<br>> retirement

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