In a perfect world it would be the other way around.

Fortunately, my husband has just landed a sweet new job and will be compensated enough so that I no longer have to work. (Don’t hate me, please.) It’s brought about an interesting question:

Would you continue to be a nurse if financially you didn’t have to?

In my case, I’m not quite ready to figure out what I will be doing with this new financial freedom. My full-time contract will be finished on April 12th. There are so many options. For now, I will definitely be spending a lot more time at home with baby Ben, and I will continue to work 1-2 days a week at the hospital, just to stay in the game.

In the meantime this is what I’m considering:

• Full time mom (and blogging as much as I can)
• Picking up where I left off with web/graphic design (freelancing maybe?)
• Graduate school (In what though? Health care IT? MBA? MFA? I’m all over the place with this one)

Notice the lack of the word “nursing” in any of these options.

Yes, I’m afraid it’s true. I’m kind of losing my passion for nursing. It might simply be that working in the recovery room is less than inspiring. When my contract is up, I’m going to try and pick up some MICU shifts to see if that sparks my interest in nursing once again. In the meantime, I will try and blog about what it is about nursing that’s starting to bother me, and maybe the blogosphere can help me put things in perspective.