Do you have a plan B

This past week my family has spent some time at the hospital while my mother had knee surgery. As we were walking into the cafeteria for a much-needed lunch the time clock caught my attention. I literally smiled when I walked past it.

I have punched someone else’s clock since I was 15 years old. In 2014, I swiped my employee identity card for the very last time. I never turned around to do one last glance, didn’t shed a tear, and I am almost sure I giggled when I got in my Honda pilot to drive home.

There were very short periods of time in my life I was not “clocked in”.

I sat and ate my very unhealthy hospital lunch as I watched the employee staff walk by and swipe their cards. No one looked overly thrilled as they heard the beep on the machine that says they were now getting paid. I jumped when my phone beeped and snapped me out of that memory moment to tell me I had a new client who just signed up on our team as I was eating lunch away from my office space.

When we returned to the floor to sit with my mother, nurses and therapist trickled in and out of the room. Full of tasks to get done in a short period of time with more patients than they had staff.

You become almost robotic as you hurry along your day filling out papers, giving medications at the right time, helping someone to the bathroom in between IV pumps going off at the same time.

I ask one of the nurses “What is your plan B?” She smiled and said with a sincere heart. This is plan A, B, C, D and E. I suppose they will pack me out on a stretcher when my time is done on earth. We had small talk about nursing as most nurses do compare stories and time on the floor.

I remember very clearly not wanting my nursing job to be my A, B, C, D and E. 

I used my lunch time to sit on the front porch of the hospital to write a blog post or in my truck when it was too cold or hot to sit outside. Back in the day of the “BlackBerry” phone, with limited internet phone service or reception. I read books, listened to audio in my truck to and from work.

My plan B was in motion.

It seemed like it was taking longer than I wanted it too but I also had to reach my retirement score to leave with my lifetime benefits. I had a plan and I was working on it every single day to move a little closer to that exit sign over the door.

Will we still need nurses?
ABSOLUTELY!

Should everyone quit their job and work from home?
NO.

I truly believe everyone needs a plan B. When you are punching the clock for someone else and all your bills and food come from the money that is generated from that one job – you are depending on them to not fire you. For you to not get hurt, or sick. Or like my mom have surgery and need someone to care for them.

Part-time plan b can change how you look at life. It can give you options, and it can give you peace. It takes one healthy crisis to wipe a family out financially.

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