Marcy is missing a great opp. She can do the teaching job for a part of the work week as the promotion already promised, spend the other days she use to work helping in cardiac or intensive care, and still collect a healthy and bigger income for the family. Cha-ching and happy at work all at once.
Take the promotion! All your experience will help train other great nurses. Do not make the error of wasting all that experience and talent by not sharing it. And ask to still keep a hand in during the other days if you miss the patients.
I think she should take the promotion. Take a year or two and train the next generation of cardio nurses. Her beloved patients need many well trained nurses not just Marcy.
My mother was a nurse and she was in it for the patient care, period. I can’t imagine her giving up regular interaction with patients. But , that’s one wonderful thing about the nursing profession – there are so many options, so many directions in which you can take it. (I didn’t follow my mother into nursing BTW for a myriad of reasons – among them a tendency towards squeamishness!)
I remember one time when someone tried to push me on a great money making venture and kept telling me how much money I could make with no real investment on my part (no, it wasn’t Amway, although some people have tried to push that on me too) and he was genuinly shocked when I told him I was happy with the way things were and I wasn’t interested in making a lot more money.
Enter.Name.Here over 6 years ago
Marcy is missing a great opp. She can do the teaching job for a part of the work week as the promotion already promised, spend the other days she use to work helping in cardiac or intensive care, and still collect a healthy and bigger income for the family. Cha-ching and happy at work all at once.
GirlGeek Premium Member over 6 years ago
I thought she was going to be able to spend more time with the family. Isn’t that what she wanted?
Kalkkuna over 6 years ago
It is, as I have foreseen…
Grutzi over 6 years ago
Both she and Joe came up against similar career choices with basically the same answers.
I'll fly away over 6 years ago
Marci, take the promotion! More time with your children is what is really needed most at this time of their lives.
cabalonrye over 6 years ago
Take the promotion! All your experience will help train other great nurses. Do not make the error of wasting all that experience and talent by not sharing it. And ask to still keep a hand in during the other days if you miss the patients.
kab buch over 6 years ago
Marcy is high energy do both.
Kala Premium Member over 6 years ago
I think she should take the promotion. Take a year or two and train the next generation of cardio nurses. Her beloved patients need many well trained nurses not just Marcy.
Reaven over 6 years ago
Always take the promotion, especially if you care about your work.
The alternative is that some moron in it for the money, connections, or power gets the job and isn’t there for the right reasons.
SactoSylvia over 6 years ago
My mother was a nurse and she was in it for the patient care, period. I can’t imagine her giving up regular interaction with patients. But , that’s one wonderful thing about the nursing profession – there are so many options, so many directions in which you can take it. (I didn’t follow my mother into nursing BTW for a myriad of reasons – among them a tendency towards squeamishness!)
patlaborvi over 6 years ago
I remember one time when someone tried to push me on a great money making venture and kept telling me how much money I could make with no real investment on my part (no, it wasn’t Amway, although some people have tried to push that on me too) and he was genuinly shocked when I told him I was happy with the way things were and I wasn’t interested in making a lot more money.
jmworacle over 6 years ago
Sometimes the love of what one does is its own compensation.