Exciting news- As of today, I am an MBA-holding graduate. I have completed my MBA. I have requested a meeting with hospital administration concerning my future with the hospital. Ever since I let it be known that I am looking for work and have an MBA, a BSN, and multiple board certifications, recruiters have been blowing up my email with pitches about why I should work for them. I have agreed to six different meetings with the administrators of other hospitals in the coming two weeks.
I am going into that meeting with my hospital’s admin holding all of the cards. I’m going to attempt to leverage this into a major opportunity. Big changes coming.
21 Comments
Grumpy51 · November 7, 2025 at 6:42 am
CONGRATULATIONS!!
GreenCross4Safety · November 7, 2025 at 6:50 am
Good on you! Great feeling to have all the cards in salary negotiations. Good luck!
Michael · November 7, 2025 at 7:12 am
Now you can be a “driving force” to change unpaid required training?
I’ve known more than a few reformers that got on the administration system.
I ponder what happened to them as decades past and nothing really changes.
You do have some great cards, but I hear the house in the long term wins, otherwise how do they pay for the glam?
But then again, I gave up administration as too hard on my self respect. Pay wasn’t worth it.
Divemedic · November 7, 2025 at 7:29 am
I once worked for an employer who was deliberately keeping people sick in order to make more money. I pushed back and they fired me, claiming that I was deliberately sabotaging their computer networks by putting a virus in the system. It blackballed me for years, which is why I had to become a teacher. I gleefully testified against them AND sued them for wrongful termination. They paid me so much money that I had to write a $250,000 check to the IRS to cover the taxes.
I have morals and principles, and I don’t lose those for anyone or anything.
Joe Blow · November 8, 2025 at 7:59 am
…. you just moved up on my list. LOL! Not that you care, of course, but I didn’t know you succeeded in suing the pants off them! Great job!
Dan Danknick · November 7, 2025 at 7:29 am
For whatever reasons my fellow readers come to your blog, encouragement through going first in line has to be one of them. You are certainly a man who walks his talk and our country would be a lot different if more men and women had your drive backed by a long term vision of productivity and stewardship of their abilities.
Well done and congratulations! My best to you and your loved ones.
PS: Please keep time for Area Ocho
Divemedic · November 7, 2025 at 7:34 am
I will. This blog allows me to say things that I can’t say at work. That ability is why I started this blog more than 18 years ago.
Jeff · November 7, 2025 at 7:52 am
My 82 year old mother is an RN- she raised 3 kids. I remember the day she finished her masters at around age 40-she was ecstatic. I also remember the day the day she got in a huge fight with her dissertation mentor and finally decided she had enough.
I asked her years later if she was sad about not getting her doctorate and she said that , no,
getting her life back before everyone moved on more than made up for it. Congratuations!
Divemedic · November 7, 2025 at 7:56 am
I’m not getting a doctorate.
SP RN · November 7, 2025 at 9:16 am
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Richard Duplichan · November 7, 2025 at 9:48 am
Excellent!
Gerry · November 7, 2025 at 9:58 am
Well done.
Kevin Fogarty · November 7, 2025 at 11:10 am
38 year paramedic here. Don’t go to the dark side. But if you have to, be a roadblock in the other administrators’ way.
Old Maine Farmer · November 7, 2025 at 2:12 pm
Congratulations! You are like my father; you never stop learning and growing. We need more people like you willing to roll up your sleeves and fix things!
Danny · November 7, 2025 at 5:37 pm
Two thumbs up – way to go!
Seamrog · November 7, 2025 at 9:17 pm
Awesome sauce. My profession causes me to interact with hospital systems, and I know enough to know that when you get to the ‘senior administration level,’ that you enjoy perks like no longer having to pack and ship your own belongings when you move. People show up, and carefully do it for you as ‘part of the package.’
Big healthcare has it’s advantages, and also comes with a cost.
I think it is awesome that a guy who has ‘walked the walk’ has the potential to move into a leadership role, and be mindful towards patient care vs. profit.
Henry · November 7, 2025 at 9:20 pm
You deserve a very substantial round of applause and admiration for the grind of working fulltime and going to class. I hope the interviews lead to a job worthy of your talents. Congratulations!
Dan · November 7, 2025 at 9:34 pm
It’s been my experience in half century of healthcare that it’s exceedingly rare for a hospital to make rational choice regarding actually paying current employees what they are worth. If you want to make more you almost always must change employers, even when you can prove that it’s cheaper for them to pay you more than to pay to replace you. In truth the money doesn’t come out of the pockets of those making decisions so often they make very costly decisions just to prove THEY are in charge. And when you prove a desk bound bean counter is wrong all you have done is make that bean counter your enemy.
Some rando · November 7, 2025 at 10:34 pm
Way to go! Congratulations!
McChuck · November 8, 2025 at 7:50 am
Congratulations! Let’s hope that all that hard work pays off for you!
Joe Blow · November 8, 2025 at 7:57 am
Congrats on your MBA, and congrats to your long slog of hard work paying off! You’re a better man than me (but you knew that!), I find I am old now, and learning new things is literally a lot harder than it used to be (plasticity and all that). I’ve had to dig into a few topics the last few years, and found it far more challenging than such tasks even 10 years ago. Good for you! Best of luck on the interviews!
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