So...I started a new job this past month and the insurance is FANTASTIC. My coverage will begin April 1st. 100% coverage...NO out of pocket costs. Tell me I am crazy though. I just had two amazing interviews for a job I think I will LOVE and could stay at for years. Insurance package hasn't been presented to me yet except that it is BCBS. Here's some background. I am currently employed as a homecare RN case manager. I travel up to 150 miles per day doing patient care. I make about 63,000/year. Lots of sedentary car sitting, bad food choices being made, really really don't like what I do but if I can put up with it for 6 months I can transfer out into the ER where I love to work. It's a very large multihospital system. New job would be a leadership position-nursing supervisor in a small community hospital. I would have some direct patient care, management responsibilities and I have been working for years to land a job like this...$70,000/year. I just finished my Bachelor's so that I could move up in and get away from being micromanaged.

I am seriously considering taking the new job, am I crazy? Even if there are higher out of pocket costs should I? I am committed to this surgery and will begin my journey as soon as my coverage begins. What would you do?

You need to be true to your self and make yourself happy. Don't be a prisoner to the insurance company. As a nurse you give of your self every day to others. Now it is time to GIVE TO YOU!! Follow your heart ...for the new position and the surgery!!! Go for it!!!

If you're in a job that you don't love, you won't be able to love yourself, even if it is your "new" self. Nursing is one of those things that you really need to love your job to do it well. If you aren't happy, your patients can tell and they won't get great patient care! I'm with Zima...Be true to you!!!!

Thanks ladies! Your kind words are wonderful.