You wait patiently until someone taps you on your head and yells “GOOSE!” giving you permission to get up and run your hardest; to run as fast as your legs will take you to your next destination (with respect to the game, it’s the exact same spot lol)
Over the last couple of months, I feel like I’ve been a sitting duck, waiting for my “goose.” I finished my nursing program a couple of months ago. However due to the set up of my program, I finished in June when most new nursing graduates finish in April. So basically, they beat you to the punch and get first dibbs on employment and we have to wait around until next season’s intake. So, I’ve been out of school for almost 3 months now, I have been applying to jobs for over 5 months. Positions in which don’t start until after September… so I patiently wait and wait and wait, hoping to hear back when the timing is more appropriate (closer to the hire date). QUAACCKKK!
People think that the job market for nursing is on fire and since the demand is so high, finding a job should be easy! Correction! YOU ARE WRONG. Despite the need and dire demand for more nurses, hospital budgets sometimes just can’t support their own need. What does that mean? Only a few positions open up. What does that mean? COMPETITION IS ON!
I had my first interview yesterday at Sick Kids. It was only a first level, HR screening interview, but it was so nerve racking, yet so exciting. You know, working at the Hospital for Sick Children is only my dream job (haha). I feel like it went well. I made sure to use all the right fluffy nursing buzz words (not that I don’t believe them to be true, but sometimes we embellish) . I received a lot of smiles, head nodding, “goods” and “greats” but she was an overall really nice woman so I couldn’t really gauge what was REALLY going on in her head. Did I sound fake? Did I sound rehearsed? REGARDLESS, now I wait and hope that she will pass my resume onto the units on the hospital that are still hiring and that the unit managers will feel compelled to call me for a second level interview. FINGERS CROSSED!!
One of my biggest fears is that, MY DREAM, MY DESIRES isn’t necessarily what God wants for me (I’d like to think that I have this deep desire because God planted it there). I want it so bad, that I’m hoping that, that’s what God has planned for me too (horrah!). Lord, O sovereign God, almighty father in heaven, if this is your will, may I do all things through YOUR might and not my own. Bless me with patience & perseverance and may all my intentions be pure… to bring glory to YOUR name and kingdom in heaven. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
Patience is a sign of good faith. So I’ll sit here waiting, knowing and believing that God knows best and that things will come at the right time. As I wait God to call out “GOOSE” I will proceed patiently and continue to apply, apply, apply, apply!
So the wait continues. Duck, duck, duck duck…..
