I Am Never TOO Old TO . . . CONSIDER A NEW PROFESSION

As the year 2008 was coming to a close I started considering the need for a new profession. I had just turned 60 yrs old.

Until I became a Hospice nurse in 2002 I had changed jobs about every 3 years. I would get bored after I learned all the ins and outs of the job. The challenge of learning something new and applying myself until I had accomplished my goal of doing what I considered to be the very best I could do with that job or position was the part I liked and that was exciting. The everyday same old same old was boring. So once the challenge was accomplished I started looking for another one.

I just don’t think God created me to work just to make money or to live from pay check to pay check. As I said in an earlier post, I also need to make enough money to be able to “play”. I’m so thankful that we are all created different, it makes life so interesting.

I’ve been employed by our hospital system since 1987 and in that time I’ve worked on 2 different nursing units (post-surgical and mental health); as an on-call house supervisor; then with home-health a case manager, triage nurse, liaison, visit nurse for hospice and finally a hospice case manager for Nursing Homes, assisted-living facilities and Alzheimer Units.

Now, do to some back injuries I’m unable to do active physical patient care, so this last job is perfect for me. That is probably why I’ve been in it so long, Oh and the hours (I work a week then I’m off a week).

Back to 2 years ago, I started looking into the future and realized I wouldn’t be able to do a lot of physically active kinds of jobs (although my back is so much better.) Plus I had to consider the fact that I hate SALES, even though I did try real-estate for awhile. As I prayed and thought several things came to mind. These I’ll describe in the next posting.