11-17-2011, 07:06 AM
A lot about Hawai'i is awesome, but someone who has zero experience in mingling with THIS culture, as a mainlander from Kansas, is going to have a huge learning curve.
IMHO, too many people are moving here thinking of good weather. You will trade the weather issues for a bunch of other issues you have never dealt with at home. This is no utopia.
Your wife will only get hired it NO local girl or guy is there for the job, same with you. That's how it works here. After you have been here maybe five years, you move up the ladder a little.
I realize I am being harsh, but the repercussions from moving your family and not making it could be with you the rest of your life, and I want you to start thinking about the worst case. I have seen people very qualified for jobs get rejected again and again with the polite found someone else to fill the position.
That said, I don't know what travel nursing entails, but if you come here and go to the offices and the hospital, you will see that most staff is local, apart from the doctors. If you are a doctor, you are needed, but the cost of running a practice keeps new ones away. Many people here have insurance that pays the doctors very little reimbursement.
My grandson has a variety of special needs, and he is in a great school on the west side, but there are still kids who say mean things, like "freak" and so on.
If you moved to the west side, you would not run into the non-local issue as much, but you wouldn't find it nearly as affordable. Catch-22. Live where it's cheaper, get paid much less. That is why people commute 4-6 hours a day to the other side.
"And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody, outside of a small circle of friends ~ Phil Ochs
IMHO, too many people are moving here thinking of good weather. You will trade the weather issues for a bunch of other issues you have never dealt with at home. This is no utopia.
Your wife will only get hired it NO local girl or guy is there for the job, same with you. That's how it works here. After you have been here maybe five years, you move up the ladder a little.
I realize I am being harsh, but the repercussions from moving your family and not making it could be with you the rest of your life, and I want you to start thinking about the worst case. I have seen people very qualified for jobs get rejected again and again with the polite found someone else to fill the position.
That said, I don't know what travel nursing entails, but if you come here and go to the offices and the hospital, you will see that most staff is local, apart from the doctors. If you are a doctor, you are needed, but the cost of running a practice keeps new ones away. Many people here have insurance that pays the doctors very little reimbursement.
My grandson has a variety of special needs, and he is in a great school on the west side, but there are still kids who say mean things, like "freak" and so on.
If you moved to the west side, you would not run into the non-local issue as much, but you wouldn't find it nearly as affordable. Catch-22. Live where it's cheaper, get paid much less. That is why people commute 4-6 hours a day to the other side.
"And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody, outside of a small circle of friends ~ Phil Ochs