Johnny Bravo told me he wants to shift careers away from nursing and focus on cooking instead. He took cooking lessons from one of the culinary schools suddenly sprouting like mushrooms all over the metropolis. Since he's a good cook, he's being tapped to teach, which he prefers, because he feels like quitting his job as a Clinical Instructor at a teaching hospital. He can't leave his students for one minute-- a stressful situation-- as he's concerned they might endanger the lives of the hospital patients if they make major mistakes. He doesn't mind cutting open the cadavers of murder victims in a mortuary, though. He takes pictures from his cell phone and shows them to me.
He says the nursing industry is bursting at the seams.
"I thought the demand for nurses abroad remains sky-high. In fact, we have a shortage of nurses in local hospitals, right?" I asked him.
"Not really. There's an oversupply of nurses, much like in the mid-nineties when nursing graduates couldn't find jobs and ended-up doing something else." He said this with authority.
"In fact, the US is only starting to process nursing applicants from 2002, " he added.
Which only confirms what Jasmin, a Credit Investigator-turned-Nurse told me when we met up for coffee a few months back.
It's the law of supply and demand on full display.
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