Question?! Answer: Ask Tuffy Luv.
Dear Tuffy Luv,
I’m graduating with a degree in nursing. Where should I move?
Ready to start life
Dear Ready to start life,
Wow. Well, that depends. I found this nifty little site: fabulousnurse.com. According to fabulousnurse.com, the best city for a nurse is Austin, TX, followed by San Antonio, TX and Salt Lake City, UT. Seems to based on a number of factors, including basic number of job openings and salary. I also found nursinglink.monster.com, which claims based on cash per hour, California and Hawaii are the top two. Um, I think I’m going with that one.
You’re obviously looking for an adventure, since you’re willing to relocate any flooping place based on your question. So open up your options by eliminating some, yes? First you need to think about what you’re going to do with that nursing degree. Do you want to work in a hospital? Or do you want to be a psychiatric nurse? Or a nurse educator? Or a school nurse? You can search that way and find really interesting jobs in other cities that you would never have found if you just searched “nurse.”
You could also be a travel nurse or disaster nurse and help by traveling to the people who need you most. Aunt Tuffy will worry about you, because it’s dangerous and scary, but I’m sure it’s also incredibly exciting and rewarding. On the other hand, you also have to think about other things. Like?
(1) Your family. Do you want to be close to them? Far from them? Make sure you know and consider it!!
(2) Starting your own family. Do you want to do that eventually? Think about the general time-line you’d like to set and pick your location based on how steady or not steady you might want to be.
(3) Do you like cities? Rural areas? Suburbs?
Girl, you need to visit some places. Take a roadtrip and figure out what the floop you like in a place. And then find a job and move there.
Hearts & Skulls,
Tuffy Luv
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