Decidering, Part 9

I'm back to making decisions! In case you are new 'round these parts, I have been making lots of decisions in April, for better or worse. There is still time if you have decisions that need to be made. Email me soon; in May I go back to being terribly indecisive.

Lindsey needs to decide between two jobs at the hospital where she works. Here's her dliemma:

"If I choose to stay on the cardiac floor, I have a day shift. I will make decent money, I love the people I will work with, and I really enjoy cardiac patients and their disease processes. I will have 6-8 patients at a time, which will run me ragged, but I can handle it.

If I choose the CICU, I will work 12 hour night shifts on the weekends. Yuck. But I could probably transfer to weeknights in the next 6 months. I will make $5 an hour more…that is a lot of money in my part of the world! I will also gain invaluable experience, that could help me if I ever want to go to graduate school (don’t even know if I want to!). And I will only have 1 or 2 critically ill patients to care for, which will keep me running just as much as the other job."

I decide: Night shift! My husband, the mathematician around here, says that $5 an hour adds up to $10,000 per year, assuming you are working a 40-hour work week. That's a lot of shoes. If you are really on the fence, and would enjoy either job equally well, you might as well go for the money and then buy yourself something nice.

In fact, I might as well help you spend it. Let's take a look at what $10,000 can get you.

I thought that would get us close, but all that only adds up to $4,500. Looks like I am going to need to do some more shopping.

Such lovely things! But, that only brings us to $6,755. I continue shopping after the jump.

A globe! I mean, if you have 10K burning a hole in your pocket, you'll surely want to pick up a globe! And maybe some caviar. This round of goodies brings us to $8,360. Geez, you can get a lot of crap for $10,000. What else? I know! How about these items:

Finally! I've spent $9,938*, leaving just enough for a glass of wine and a cab ride home after all that shopping.

* I know, I know. I did not factor in tax. This is fantasy shopping. There is no tax in fantasy shopping because that would require fancy math and my fantasy world does not include fancy math. It includes unicorns, buckets of strawberries, and twirly pink skirts, but definitely no math.

What do y'all think? Night shift or day shift? And, more importantly, please tell Lindsey what she should do with the 10K.

Comments

[AuburnKat]

I say go for the money!

Btw, I have gone against your decidering and choosen Buffalo due to a job offer I could not passup!

[chronicler]

I say take the night shift. But no for a long time. The stress of CICU can take its toll after a while. Remember you may like the boost it gives to your resume, but you also don't want to be burnt out.

Janet I love fantasy shopping! You did good!

[janet]

I ADORE LOVE LOVE this post. Maybe my favorite ever? You are just too cute Ms. Pink :)

[JP]

Go for the night shift. $10K buys a lot of pretty things! And if you work 12-hour shifts, does that mean that you only have to work 3 or 4 days a week? If not, then will you get overtime? Because then you'll make $7.50 extra for those overtime hours.

[Lissa]

Night shifts! $10k! You can do a lot with that! It can help pay for grad school if you want or go to vegas! Your choice!

Also I hate fancy math!

[Lindsey]

Thanks, guys...I appreciate all the advice, and maybe i can put a little of the extra money toward paying of the $25K I owe in student loans...that I have accrued in the 16 months of nursing school. But mostly shopping sounds fabulous!!!!!

[Nicole]

Go for the night shift. Thinking practically, I have to say put the $10k toward a house. It's a buyers' market right now!

[Hope]

All of a sudden I have a hankering for $10k so that I can buy shiny things!

[Chris Cactus]

It's kinda like the old-school Wheel of Fortune when you got to go shopping. Fun!

[Morgan]

Just stumbled across your ADORABLE blog and I'm in love! You have a new reader. :D

[Katie]

Ha ha!! Love your shopping spree :)
On another note, I would worry about the stress level of caring for more critical patients in the CICU(higher death rate, more meds, etc...) No amount of extra money can help with that :(

[Maria]

where oh WHERE did that bicycle come from?!?!? im looking for a cute bike like that and came across it while reading your decidering posts.