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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 191106" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Daisy, I absolutely think you're making the right decision, to follow your heart. And you're NOT too old! Sheeesh! 44 is <u>young</u>! You could spend the next <em>twenty years</em> doing something you love ... or you could spend that same twenty years doing something you might come to despise!!</p><p> </p><p>My daughter is a nurse and I would never encourage anyone to go into nursing who isn't 100% sure that that's what they want to do. Allison (my daughter) is only 32 but she's spent half her life in the medical field! She started working as an aid after school in our local nursing home when she was just 16, then full time for a year after she graduated, then nursing school, and she's been working as a nurse ever since. At least she knew what she was getting in to. Some of the people she went to school with realized during training that it wasn't really for them and never worked a day as a nurse after graduation. And many others started nursing jobs and then soon quit. She worked a lot of stressful assignments - ER, childrens ER, cardiac wards, etc. And after a while even she started to "burn out". After they moved to S. Carolina she got another ER job and hated it. Not all hospitals are the same. She decided that she had had enough of the stress of working directly with patients and now is in a supervisory position with a home health care firm.</p><p> </p><p>My point is (the long way around) that if even someone as dedicated as she is got burned out on it after a while, someone who is only lukewarm about going in to nursing in the first place won't last long at all - they'd be miserable! If you don't really, really love it, you'll <u>hate</u> it! Life's too short and money isn't everything. Follow your heart and do what will make you happy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 191106, member: 1883"] Daisy, I absolutely think you're making the right decision, to follow your heart. And you're NOT too old! Sheeesh! 44 is [U]young[/U]! You could spend the next [I]twenty years[/I] doing something you love ... or you could spend that same twenty years doing something you might come to despise!! My daughter is a nurse and I would never encourage anyone to go into nursing who isn't 100% sure that that's what they want to do. Allison (my daughter) is only 32 but she's spent half her life in the medical field! She started working as an aid after school in our local nursing home when she was just 16, then full time for a year after she graduated, then nursing school, and she's been working as a nurse ever since. At least she knew what she was getting in to. Some of the people she went to school with realized during training that it wasn't really for them and never worked a day as a nurse after graduation. And many others started nursing jobs and then soon quit. She worked a lot of stressful assignments - ER, childrens ER, cardiac wards, etc. And after a while even she started to "burn out". After they moved to S. Carolina she got another ER job and hated it. Not all hospitals are the same. She decided that she had had enough of the stress of working directly with patients and now is in a supervisory position with a home health care firm. My point is (the long way around) that if even someone as dedicated as she is got burned out on it after a while, someone who is only lukewarm about going in to nursing in the first place won't last long at all - they'd be miserable! If you don't really, really love it, you'll [U]hate[/U] it! Life's too short and money isn't everything. Follow your heart and do what will make you happy. [/QUOTE]
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