received!

The fingerprint card came in the mail today!!!!!!  Unfortunately, the police department only does fingerprints on Thursdays from 9-11am, and I work on Thursday.  I am toying with the idea of having someone work for me, just 7-11am, so I can go have my prints done and mail all this to California....

waiting... as usual?

All my paperwork is ready to go to mail to California but I am patiently waiting for my fingerprint card so I can be printed and mail it all together.  I am hoping to accept an assignment by the end of October.

going smoothly

Applying for the Cali license looks to be a lot easier.  It requires much of the same as Illinois, but the paperwork process is so much easier.  I requested my finger print card and sent out paperwork to both MI's BON and San Jac.  Ran to Walgreens this AM and got my passport style photo taken and my application is filled out and ready to go.  Unfortunately, Cali's BON is closed today so I am unable to ask them if I can go ahead and send in the application now and send in the fingerprints once they are done, OR if i have to wait and mail it all in at once.  I guess it'll wait til Monday.

Disappointing thing is, David already told me about a job in San Francisco but they need someone within 2 weeks, which I won't have a Cali license for 4-6 weeks.  Oh well, there are tons of Cali jobs.

California

It is my goal, today and tomorrow, to get going on getting my California license.  It appears there are always jobs there, and if I am going to travel, I'll need to travel there.

Nurse Choice

I was so excited last week after talking to my recruiter through NurseChoice, they have awesome pay, shorter assignments and great benefits.  AND, there was a job posting for San Antonio starting in the fall.  Things were looking up.

Today, I emailed my recruiter, and asked him to let me know if anything else comes up or if the SA job changes and starts sooner.  He replied letting me know that that job was already filled up but that he'd keep an eye out for me. 

Another up, another down.

And I am extremely thankful that I have a full time position at The Cove.  If I didn't, I'd be a lot more upset at all these "close calls".  But, it makes me wonder if this is still something I am supposed to be doing or not.  I had 4 days off over the weekend and was only called in yesterday for a few hours, but I still felt a bit deflated going into work.  The clientele lately up there has just been so depressing.  It's not the babies, persay, it's the parents that we deal with.  I was thinking a change of scenery would be nice, would help rejuvenate me.  Hopefully this door to SA closed so that a better one could open.  I really would like a good door to open soon.