I'll see you in the ICU!

Still no job

I have applied to around a hundred jobs since May.
If you count back to March, when I was applying from my 8x10 foot room at the Columbia dorms, maybe 150.

I still have nothing.

I'm exhausted. Today I went to Kaiser SF to sit through their info session and listen to why I want to work there, along with every other newbie nurse, some of whom have their RN already, some of whom are already nurses, some of whom decided to show up in jeans.

I then went to UCSF to try to get into the OCTOBER new nurse training residency, and then went to SF General, where I walked about 15 blocks trying to find the damn building after the jerk inside kept sending me to 25th street to HR after I told him I was looking for 1001 Potrero street.

Tomorrow, I drive down to Santa Clara for their info session, where I get to listen to the same stuff, watch the same slide show, collect the same packets, etc.

I'm so tired, I could cry.
I'm getting ready to just give the fuck up.
I guess there's a glut of nursing students that have just graduated, no jobs, and no one, but absolutely NO ONE wants to train a new grad for the ICU.

Thanks Columbia university ETP program...I'm so happy I went all the way to New York to attend. Jobs in ICUs are infact a breeze to get, just like you said.

posted by sketchmonkey @ 9:07 PM