Numbers and gut feelings

Fifteen schools. That’s the number that keeps running through my head as I sit here with Jake, the job offer spread out between us like a roadmap to somewhere I’ve never been. Regional Curriculum Coordinator for Nursing Education Innovation - even the title feels bigger than anything I’ve done before.

Numbers and gut feelings

The salary increase is substantial. More than substantial, actually. Jake keeps pointing to that line on the offer letter and raising his eyebrows like he can’t quite believe it either. But it’s everything else that has me staring at the ceiling at 2am, mind racing. Fifteen nursing programs across three states. Travel every month. Building something from the ground up instead of just being part of someone else’s vision.

“You know you’re going to say yes,” Jake says, catching me chewing on my pen cap for the third time in ten minutes. He’s probably right. The pilot program I helped design has been working - really working - and now they want me to take it everywhere.

Talking through the numbers and the timeline

Part of me is terrified I’m not ready for something this big. But a bigger part of me knows that if I don’t take this leap now, I’ll spend the next five years wondering what would have happened if I had.

We’ve decided to sleep on it one more night, but honestly? I think we both already know what tomorrow’s phone call is going to sound like.