As I drove closer I could smell the embers, ashes were falling from the sky. I had thought my home would be safe, it was just one shift. I wan’t expecting a double at the hospital that day either. I lost everything. I hadn’t even had a chance to move anything to safety. Not even my dog, the worst outcomes start racing through my mind but just then she darts out from a neighbors garage. It survived the flames and kept her safe from all harm, the relief rolled in quickly with tears of joy, at least I’ve got my girl. I try to remain as calm as possible the only thing stressing will do is make things worse. I have plenty in savings to survive while I figure out a living situation. I decide to call my sister and she offers her spare bedroom to me for as long as I need. I can breath a little, everything is falling perfectly into place so far. As I pull into her beautifully paved driveway I look around. I notice an RV parked in the neighbors yard with a for sale sign on the windshield. It almost feels like fate. I’ve been wanting to start working as a travel nurse so I can see all over but I’ve Just been too attached to my home and all my belongings it was hard to let go. But now this is my chance to start over. While I contact insurance about my house I ponder the idea of buying the RV and just taking off with my dog. Not only will I be able to take her everywhere I go but bills will go down, I’ll be free to travel all around and see so much more of the country I live in. I can experience life just a little deeper. It‘s sounding like the perfect idea. I wait about a week to reach out to the neighbors to make sure I’m absolutely ready to just take off after all this has been my home state my whole life. We discuss the RV, it has no issues whatsoever they are just looking for a bigger one so they can travel with the whole family as it’s recently grown. Interior was nice and clean, miles were low, tires were basically new and the price was good too. We strike up a deal and all that’s left is to wait on the insurance money to come in. I had been in contact with them all week at this point it was just a few days out from dropping into my account then I could be on the road whenever. Now it’s time to start looking for a travel company I can transfer to as soon as possible. I go online and start searching. There’s a couple that look promising so I put my application in to both. Now just to sit back and await their calls A day goes by and I get a call asking for me to come in for an interview. Out of pure excitement I set the interview up the same day and get ready to head over. When I arrive the building looks run down and sketchy but you can’t always judge a book by its cover. I gather myself and head inside. As I walk in I immediately get and intense waft of body Oder but I just try to ignore it. I approach the front desk and before I could even speak the lady behind the counter yells “JANNIT, your interview is here!” I could smell her breath from there. A near by door flies open and an older women waddles out. Jannit greets me and gestures for me to follow her back to her office. When I walk in the room there’s nothing but a desk a couple chairs and a laptop placed perfectly in the center of the desk. Why would the room be completely empty? I tell myself maybe it’s a new location and they are still getting their footing. She proceeds to tell me about all the job openings and telling me what positions i would qualify for, but all around I’d probably be doing a little of everything. I respond to that with “I don’t mind working multiple positions as long as everyone on the team is kept to the same standards and putting in the same effort.” She pauses for a second and then starts to tell me about how their last nurse just quit and I would be picking up all the calls until we got another nurse to. At this point I can feel it all over there is something wrong here. I respectfully inform her I was all done with the interview and would like to leave. I apologize for wasting her time. She gets agitated very quickly still and tells me to “get out of my office you shouldn’t be setting up interviews for jobs you can’t handle!” I dodged a bullet with that one for sure. That’s ok though everything can’t go perfect first try, I was always expecting some sort of hiccup. Before I leave the parking lot I decide to check my email and I had one new one, they were requesting I send over my qualifications and medical credentials. At the end of the email they stated a link to a background check will be sent to me after everything is reviewed. This one is seeming a little more legit then the last already. I head home and fax over my credentials and await a response. It wasn’t until the next day I got the link in response. Quickly I filled it out and hit send. Satisfied with how its going so far I await my interview call. Once the insurance money hits my account I reach out to the neighbors about finishing up final details on the RV sale. I pay them in full and now it’s just to wait to be accepted into a travel position. I was currently stationed at A hospital near my sister because they transferred me after the fire while I figure out my living situation, so luckily I have work while I wait for a hit. I pondered the idea of offering to work the hospitals only through out my state to make it easier to embed myself into a chain of already connected locations. A couple days go by of searching for other options when I got a call from them, they apologize for the wait they had just got the results of the background check. I was all clear and they’d love to set up and interview as soon as possible. I could choose between in person when they returned from their meetings out of state or I could do and over the phone interview where they could get me in anytime that day. I hesitated because that made it seem a little rushed but with the options available I said screw it and went for it. The interview goes on for about fifteen to twenty minutes and it was all seeming to proper and professional. In the end she asks me how soon I could start, I immediately told her I could put in my two weeks and be ready to start training. She proceeds to offer me a full time traveling position that will bring me state to state in various emergency rooms during disasters. I promptly shake her hand and accept the position. Afterwards I rush home to my sisters to tell her about the job. After a long talk over drinks we start packing the handful of supplies people had donated after the fire into the RV. We set up the bedroom area first so my dog and I could start getting use to living in it before we are on the road. After a good night sleep I decide it’s best to alert my original hospital first. I call to let them know I would not be returning after everything settles and my two weeks was going in when I got to the current hospital I’m stationed at. They informed me I’d need to return anything I had left from them by the last day of the two weeks and wished me good luck on my adventures. When I arrive to work that day I go straight to the department lead to inform him about the offer and give him the proper notice. Over the next two weeks I reach out to friends and coworkers I’d grown fond of to say my good byes. I know i can always come back to visit but this feels like a wiped slate. I spend my spare time going on lunch dates with friends I have no clue how fast they will be sending me out of state so I don’t want to miss anyone. When it comes to the last couple days I make the drive out to my original hospital to return my uniform and gear. I told a couple coworkers I would be stopping in just in case they wanted to have a lunch but what I was not expecting was a whole crowd of staff waiting to say their good byes and throw me a beautiful send off. I was so overwhelmed in emotion I broke down in tears I haven’t cried since disaster struck but it was all hitting now. After finishing farewells I returned my gear and took off, it honestly hurt a lot more then I thought it was going to and I needed to stay in a positive mindset. The last days at work went rather quickly I was just doing general care since I wasn’t going to be there much longer. That just meant I was running from bed to bed changing bandages and quick stitches and staples. A pretty good warm up before hitting the road. On my last night I get a call from the new job. My first location was three states over right outside of a flood zone they needed me on the road asap I told them I could take off first thing in the morning. When the call ends I go to talk with my sister we cook dinner and I tell her about the call and how I was leaving right away. We make a deal to meet up every couple months trading back and forth who travels to who and spend a few hours just hanging out and enjoying our last night in the same state. I rest for a few short hours but I hit the road bright and early because I was just too excited to sleep even my dog was still curled up in her bed. I guess I needed to start fresh more then I knew……..