I may have just agreed to go back
to the hospital soon.
Since UST Hospital has not called
me yet for any exam or interview for the probationary / contractual Staff Nurse
post after finishing the training last June and after having submitted all
requirements last July, and after waiting for months and months, I have finally
decided to look the other way. After all, I cannot wait forever and doing so is
such a silly thing to do seen this way that opportunities are lacking and not
everyone is given the chance.
So after almost 4 months of
hiatus in the practice, I decided, why wait for USTH if I can go and train for
a little while at SLMC?
A couple of days ago I got a text
from the personnel from St. Luke’s to come in for an orientation the next day.
I was pretty ambivalent about it, mind you. Not because I still have not get
over the USTH but because my sister and my niece are coming over from the US for
Christmas and my parents might emigrate there early next year and this
Christmas is our first Christmas together in almost 6 years (probably even
longer considering my sister isn’t always present during Christmases because of
her job at the hospital) since my sister left the country and sadly, the last. That
means, the three-month training, should I finally decide to take all three
phases, will take most of my time and I won’t be there for reunions, parties,
road trips, dinners, and such because I am here in Manila and Zambales is
almost 6 hours bus ride away.
I almost, almost did not take the
opportunity. Family weighs more than the training itself. As a matter of fact, while sitting there while listening to the
orientation, I have decided I won’t be going to anymore, even if it took a
while to submit and receive a callback, and even if it is St. Luke’s. But then
they gave us this shotgun IQ test which contains 84 random grammar and Math
questions that we have to take for only 15 minutes, something I am not sure I’d
pass. Among the 60 first priority applicants present that day, only 11 passed
including myself. So that should amount to something right? What happens to the
49, I don’t know, but for me not to take this chance is probably not any
difference to their fate. So I took a leap of faith and decided I will take
this chance. After all, not everyone is given this chance.
I am not yet sure what I will do
come December that my sister and my niece, whom I am meeting for the first
time, get here. I am not yet sure what I will do should there be calls from
elsewhere, something of great importance than this training. I don’t know. I am
not yet sure. But I will take this chance and the days after the next as they
go along.
