On Friday 16 May 2003 21:48, John wrote:
On Friday 16 May 2003 23:14, Curtis Rey wrote:
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HTH, Curtis.
Hey Curtis,
Just a couple little questions:
What brand coffee do you drink,
and
How much of it a day do you drink? I don't think you *ever* sleep! LOL You're all over the place finding answers and whatever else pops up in here and you're always on top of it. I keep picturing a superball in a 10x10 foot square concrete room...it'll *never* stop bouncing! LOL
John -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin and my Gecko eat butterflies.
I'm a nurse that works for an agency. I contract out to hospitals and nursing homes that are short staffed. I generally work 3 to 11 and can't get to sleep before 3 am. That said the other aspect is that because I get paid 50% more than formally employed nurse do two facts have to be kept in mind. One is that as an agency employee I have cancellations do to the institution coercing their staff to do double shifts or shifts in patient populations. The other reality is that when I work at a major hospital on staff, I made X amount of money. Now I make X+50% and that means that what I used to have to work for 9 days to get a paycheck, I now only have to work 6. In otherwords I was hired as most nurses are - at 0.9 status - you work 9 out of 14 days. Now the same can be accomplished in 6 which can, at times leave me with as much as 3 or 4 days off a week to make the same amount of money as before. Given that graduation has just happened at the university here in Madison. A whole slew of fresh grads are hitting the market and now I'm getting cancellations. But in a month or so I be back upto speed. 50 to 60% of new grads quite their first nursing job withing 6 months and the majority in the first 4 to 5 weeks. The other thing is that I'm serious addicted to this damn penguin boxen. I don't watch much TV anymore and if I want to listen to music... Well I typing at the player. Nursing sucks, computers are far more interesting IMHO. I am moving in a couple of months to San Diego (old home town) and hope to have my 2nd B.S in computer sci, or either go to a very good and reputable trade school and get my degree there so I can get out of medicine in around 18 to 24 months after that. Hmmm. Wonder how I'll do in the tech industry? Oh, and the coffee? Very dark, usually French roast or darker, and on average 4+ cups per day. I hope that satisfies your curisosity. :) Cheers, Curtis. P.S. I wondered if someone was gonna notice.