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I am currently employed in a hospital in an office position. I am an RN but unable to do bedside nursing due to medical problems. I am being offered a position with an organization that is a large, internationally-known healthcare/rescue organization. (I do not wish to identify it or seem to give endorsement here.)
The job would be management level and will offer advancement - neither of which I have at my current job. The drawback is that it will involve a lot more physical work than I thought “management” would have. Also the hours will be full-time, but no particular schedule. I would work some Saturdays and maybe need to be up some mornings as early as 5 AM.
The upside is that it is a job that would give a huge payback in knowing I am helping others and saving lives!
My current position is very easy physically - sitting at a computer mostly. It pays well. I work 9 - 5:30, Monday thro Friday and never work weekends or holidays. But the routine is beginning to feel boring.
The other thing on the horizon is a Parish Nurse opening at my Church. I am on a committee of medical persons in the Church and we are trying to develop a medical ministry with a Parish Nurse job. I have NO idea if this will become a paid position or even when it will become a reality. Also - if is does become a position - will it pay what I need to earn? We all know Church jobs cannot usually meet the paychecks that hospitals or other institutions can match. I know if I accept the job with the organization (above) I will have to abandon the work with the Medical Ministry group.
So my question to all of you is this:
How do you go about making life-changing decisions? I am praying nearly full-time about this issue. I want to feel certain that I am following God’s will for me and give Him the work of my hands and mind in the best way I can. I also do not want to endanger my health. I face the real possibility of needing orthopedic surgery several times in the next ten years. I am 56 years old and I want to work for the next 9 or 10 years if I can.
If anyone has ideas and suggestions about ways they make life-impacting decisions, and would like to share them - I would like to hear them! Following what God wants me to do is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in my life. So praying is Number One. What else do you do?
The job would be management level and will offer advancement - neither of which I have at my current job. The drawback is that it will involve a lot more physical work than I thought “management” would have. Also the hours will be full-time, but no particular schedule. I would work some Saturdays and maybe need to be up some mornings as early as 5 AM.
The upside is that it is a job that would give a huge payback in knowing I am helping others and saving lives!
My current position is very easy physically - sitting at a computer mostly. It pays well. I work 9 - 5:30, Monday thro Friday and never work weekends or holidays. But the routine is beginning to feel boring.
The other thing on the horizon is a Parish Nurse opening at my Church. I am on a committee of medical persons in the Church and we are trying to develop a medical ministry with a Parish Nurse job. I have NO idea if this will become a paid position or even when it will become a reality. Also - if is does become a position - will it pay what I need to earn? We all know Church jobs cannot usually meet the paychecks that hospitals or other institutions can match. I know if I accept the job with the organization (above) I will have to abandon the work with the Medical Ministry group.
So my question to all of you is this:
How do you go about making life-changing decisions? I am praying nearly full-time about this issue. I want to feel certain that I am following God’s will for me and give Him the work of my hands and mind in the best way I can. I also do not want to endanger my health. I face the real possibility of needing orthopedic surgery several times in the next ten years. I am 56 years old and I want to work for the next 9 or 10 years if I can.
If anyone has ideas and suggestions about ways they make life-impacting decisions, and would like to share them - I would like to hear them! Following what God wants me to do is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in my life. So praying is Number One. What else do you do?
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But I researched and debated between reason and conscience - feeling rather like I had the “devil and angel” on my shoulders. I also did a little “What if…” scenario, carrying my decision each way out in my mind, trying to see what would happen if I made this or that choice. That seemed to help a lot. One of my friends told me to do that.