Just cuz you have it...

Just cuz you have your RN license, that doesn't mean you'll have a job. Yeap..that's how it is now for all the newly licensed RNs.

Stupid! I hate that! When I started the program two years ago, there were plenty of jobs. People were being hired left and right, BEFORE they finished school. That's how it was a year ago too. And now? Job searching is hard!

I went to a place yesterday in San Mateo because one of my sister's contact told me to go there. When I got there, I told the receptionist I was there to pick up an application. She asked who sent me and I told her. She contacted my sister's contact and basically scolded her to say "we don't give our job applications to walk in or people that call". She just took my resume. I guess the receptionist past my resume to someone else, who called me within 30 minutes, to say that since I don't have one year experience AFTER getting licensed, they won't be considering me for any of their positions! UGH!!!

And one of my gfs who works at Kaiser told me about two positions. I applied. And then I found out that two of the internal RNs took them! If the two internal RNs took them, then their positions should be opened, right? I'm hoping...and I'm waiting.

And initially, I wasn't really worried about not having stuff to do. I figured, well, I will apply for jobs, go on my trips, and if I don't have a job by September, then I will work on school applications to go back to school. And then, guess what I got in my inbox today? A letter from SFSU telling me the following:

**Enrollment will need to be reduced from 30,000 students to about 27,760 students for 2010-11. The total student enrollment reductions due to budget cuts will be approximately 2,740 full time students.

**We will not be accepting any new or transfer students for spring 2010.

**Effective fall 2009, fees for fulltime undergraduate students will increase by $672 to $4,740.

WHAT!! They ARE NOT accepting any new or transfer students for next semester? What does that mean? What do I do now then? I'm annoyed! Can someone give me a job as our wedding gift, please......!!

On the other hand, my sister has been contacting a few people and suggesting different assisted living facilities to apply to. I hope I do get a full time job ... VERY SOON!