Well still looking for work. Still hanging in.

Every one says they are desperate for nurses yer they are not hiring. Getting a bit discouraged.
I am a very good occupational health nurse [20 years of practice], a good informatics nurse but that is almost an impossibly broad thing it is hard to pin down what it is.

The question is do I keep looking for a place to belong or give up and settle for a place I can fit in.

If all I can do is to fit in [I think for most of us that is all we ever get] I can retire in 2.5 years, and fill time and space for that long. But if I can find a place to belong, I would like to work the next 10 years, and be the best at what I do.

I know excellence is a frightening thing to most employers. We here a lot of talk about excellence, but I have only worked one place that tolerated it. Floor nursing simply does not have the time to allow it there is just too much to do, to do any of it well.

I have 3 interviews pending and I am a very strong candidate for all of them. After that there are some jobs way out of state, or I go back to floor nursing for a while and bail on it as soon as I can retire.

ZZ