Career Advice Please

Oct 09, 2009 06:12 AM

by hah2010

Hello everyone!

I am a 40 year old working mother. I have worked in the past as a HHA and CNA. I then began working in the dental field as an orthodontic assistant and eventually into the office side of dental. I have been working in admin for a drug counseling center for the past year and a half while taking a class here and there to get back into school.
I know that my heart is in the medical field, I am just not sure where! I also feel like I don't have alot of time to be undecided at my age! I need to figure it out and get moving!
I am taking medical terminology and a health careers class in January. I am really hoping the health careers class will help me in my decision.
I have always been intersted in nursing because caring for and helping people is just me!
I am also looking at Respiratory Therapy and Radiologic Technology.
For those of you out there, what is your input? Would you choose nursing again and what do you know about the other fields I mentioned?
Any help is appreciated!

rnwotwob1 · Oct 09, 2009, 02:48 PM

Re: Career Advice Please

there seems to be nothing for new grads in this part of florida just now. Seems to be more positions for CNA and HHA. (there's not a nursing shortage - there's plenty of new grads being rejected for positions daily - just look on this website)

if i had to do it again? I'd rather go to medical school - not such a waste of time/waste of brains.

BumblebeeRN · Oct 11, 2009, 05:37 PM

Re: Career Advice Please

if you can get a job working at the hospital as a CNA, once you graduate from nursing school, they will hire you right away; the same goes for resp. therapy (less money about $15-18/hr), radiology tech (even lesser money $10/hr).

I would chose this career again, and I wish I would of finished at the age of 22, and maybe I could of been doing travel nursing now------

but I am happy for my job, and with almost 2 years experience, i am thinking of trying other branches of nursing, like hospice.
with nursing, there are so many branches of the career, that you are not stuck to be in just one area, so once you are done, you can always move to another part of nursing..
with resp. therapy & radiology, you are basically just stuck there.

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