The Devil is in the Details
Okay, so the company said they would do this for me. They will terminate me and re-hire me so that my start date will be from today and I can get insurance in 90 days. So I'll get insurance in November instead of January. See, here's the thing. I need insurance NOW. I suppose waiting three months isn't so bad considering I haven't had insurance for two years. Again, it's the principle.
My mind is still made up. I'm still working on starting a travel gig.
This week has been horrendous though. I'm trying to close on the house and the bank I'm using is notorious about waiting until the last minute to do things. I've been scrambling all week to try and get things done by the deadline - termite inspecting, getting homeowners insurance, cobbling together bank statements, W2s and 401K statements. Good thing I cleaned out my files recently.
So in between trying to work I've been on the phone and popping out to run errands in between cases. Every night this week I've been getting home after midnight then up the next morning to do it all over again. I'm off today and I intend to rest as much as possible. I'm still twitchy from the three-day caffeine jugernaut.
I don't remember if I mentioned that I got a call from a travel company that is based in Ohio. When I told them I was interested in coming to Ohio he laughed and said "nobody ever requests a travel assignment in Ohio." It'll be fairly straight forward. The problem I'm having now is getting an endorsement from the Ohio Board of Nursing to practice nursing in Ohio. Most states are what are known as compact states - that is, if you are licenesed in one compact state, your license is good in another compact state. Naturally, Ohio is not a compact state so I have to fill out a ton of paperwork, pay some fees, get a passport photo, get my application notarized, get a criminal background check, have my transcripts sent from my nursing school to the board of nursing, etc, etc. Doing this all the while dealing with closing on the house has been nerve wracking. No wonder nobody wants to work in Ohio.
I have questions on a couple of the details and have called the board of nursing, but so far no one has called me back. I'm working on the rest of the paperwork in the meantime. I plan to keep calling them several times a day until someone will call back just to shut me up.
One last ornery detail has to do with nursing student uniforms. In yet another good idea gone bad, at the end of the semester last year I volunteered to collect the used uniforms people don't need anymore and pass them on to the first-year students. My intention was to give them away. Then somebody said something about "oh the student nurse organization could sell them and use the money for a scholarship". This is not what I signed on for. I wanted to give them away because paying for school and books, having to take a cut in work hours AND buying uniforms is rough. I just wanted to help someone else out since I got a lot of help on my way through school.
Anyway school started Monday. I had tried contacting the instructors of the school about my having the uniforms and they were more or less saying "you deal with it. We've got enough stuff to worry about." The students will start clinicals week after next. I don't have time to mess around with it. So I contacted the student nurse organization and in so many words said "someone take care of these uniforms or they're going in the trash." So sometime today I have to meet someone to drop off the uniforms. If it were up to me I would just show up at the college and let people take what they want and throw away what's left. If the student nurse organization wants to mess around with putting prices on everything and keeping track of the money, then fine. Let them handle it. Maybe if everything wasn't happening to me all at the same time I'd be more patient.
I just can't deal with it right now. There's laundry to be done and I promised J I'd cook tonight since I've been gone every night this week. I just want to be left alone with my fabric softener sheets and nice roast to be infused with garlic and seasonings.
My mind is still made up. I'm still working on starting a travel gig.
This week has been horrendous though. I'm trying to close on the house and the bank I'm using is notorious about waiting until the last minute to do things. I've been scrambling all week to try and get things done by the deadline - termite inspecting, getting homeowners insurance, cobbling together bank statements, W2s and 401K statements. Good thing I cleaned out my files recently.
So in between trying to work I've been on the phone and popping out to run errands in between cases. Every night this week I've been getting home after midnight then up the next morning to do it all over again. I'm off today and I intend to rest as much as possible. I'm still twitchy from the three-day caffeine jugernaut.
I don't remember if I mentioned that I got a call from a travel company that is based in Ohio. When I told them I was interested in coming to Ohio he laughed and said "nobody ever requests a travel assignment in Ohio." It'll be fairly straight forward. The problem I'm having now is getting an endorsement from the Ohio Board of Nursing to practice nursing in Ohio. Most states are what are known as compact states - that is, if you are licenesed in one compact state, your license is good in another compact state. Naturally, Ohio is not a compact state so I have to fill out a ton of paperwork, pay some fees, get a passport photo, get my application notarized, get a criminal background check, have my transcripts sent from my nursing school to the board of nursing, etc, etc. Doing this all the while dealing with closing on the house has been nerve wracking. No wonder nobody wants to work in Ohio.
I have questions on a couple of the details and have called the board of nursing, but so far no one has called me back. I'm working on the rest of the paperwork in the meantime. I plan to keep calling them several times a day until someone will call back just to shut me up.
One last ornery detail has to do with nursing student uniforms. In yet another good idea gone bad, at the end of the semester last year I volunteered to collect the used uniforms people don't need anymore and pass them on to the first-year students. My intention was to give them away. Then somebody said something about "oh the student nurse organization could sell them and use the money for a scholarship". This is not what I signed on for. I wanted to give them away because paying for school and books, having to take a cut in work hours AND buying uniforms is rough. I just wanted to help someone else out since I got a lot of help on my way through school.
Anyway school started Monday. I had tried contacting the instructors of the school about my having the uniforms and they were more or less saying "you deal with it. We've got enough stuff to worry about." The students will start clinicals week after next. I don't have time to mess around with it. So I contacted the student nurse organization and in so many words said "someone take care of these uniforms or they're going in the trash." So sometime today I have to meet someone to drop off the uniforms. If it were up to me I would just show up at the college and let people take what they want and throw away what's left. If the student nurse organization wants to mess around with putting prices on everything and keeping track of the money, then fine. Let them handle it. Maybe if everything wasn't happening to me all at the same time I'd be more patient.
I just can't deal with it right now. There's laundry to be done and I promised J I'd cook tonight since I've been gone every night this week. I just want to be left alone with my fabric softener sheets and nice roast to be infused with garlic and seasonings.