Traveling nurse a well paid profession

Its been awhile now that I haven’t  seen my best friend, It’s about a decade that we parted ways since we last met during our High School years. I went to a business school and took up business administration majoring in management while he on the other hand pursues his study in a medical school and took up nursing. Years pass and we graduated, he went to  the United States of America and work in a hospital as a nurse.  As for me, I went to Singapore for I was hired as a business executive in a manufacturing firm. Modesty aside, we are both successful in our own field. We are paid more than enough and with regards to the benefits and privileges that our company gives us it is satisfying.

It is a true notion that ”man is never satisfied of what he has”, recently news came to me that my best friend went into a four-month training to be a traveling nurse, though this a new endeavor of his, it is related to his present job. He was compelled to join the training for the pay was three times higher than his present income being an ordinary nurse.

What is a traveling nurse? From the word alone it is self-explanatory, my friend gets to travel from one state to another in a span of three to four months rendering his services in a hospital. In other words, he is still a nurse by profession but does not stay to long in a particular hospital. It’s good for he gets to travel and see different places and all his expenses are well taken cared by his agency. This includes the relocation of his family, transportation fare, the new house, purchase of a new vehicle and the education of their children.

The overall package for a traveling nurse is very  tempting to anyone who is seeking for a greener pasture but there is a downside to this undertaking. first, since staying in a particular place is just brief you get to adjust to the community and the place you are moving in. This also goes with your neighbors and co-workers. Second, you can never settle to one place and establish your permanent domicile. Third, the tedious moving of things that goes along with you. This pertains to the furnitures and fixtures, and lastly, kids often times get bored with the continuous mobility and the adjustments they have to make when they go to a new school.