I'm a travel nurse. You can make $6,000 a week and live in cool places — but some jobs are too good to be true.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ali Brown, a travel nurse currently based in Billings, Montana. It has been edited for length and clarity. I started working as a traveling nurse, or “traveler” as we say, in 2014. I’m from Baltimore, Maryland, and my first assignment was in …

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