[TriageRN_34]

So, if you considered nursing but had another dream career what would you have done????

I wanted to be a vet so badly but got a grant from my State for Nursing School! I took it..duh why not...been in healthcare since I was young! But I still long for a career in vet! (I have better results with pets and their owners than people some days! LOL!)

What was your dream job? And lets keep it to non nursing okay??? We all know about loving nursing...but what about other professions too???

[lady_jezebel]

I have a few:
Cultural or physical anthropologist/professor (no jobs for the non-Ivy league)
Physician (they have all the fun -- I know I'm in the minority here)
Writer or painter (I lack skill/talent)

My ultimate dream job:
One of those lucky few who travels around the world for a living, however it would be accomplished.

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But when my days are really tough at work, I frequently dream of working as a coffee shop barrista!

[Fiona59]

I wanted to be a ballerina but failed the national audition.

I always thought I'd work with bears or wolves.
The other fantasy job is wealthy man's mistress, just eat bonbons, go to couture shows, and ......

[TriageRN_34]

You guys are great! I too thought about MD...I have the stuff...just no money/time/and heck....I am 35...not like I want to start at intern and stuff now!?! LOL! (again I got a grant remember to RN school).

I still want to be a vet though...just waiting for my oportunity...that internship I WANT to handle! (I am in the country now..grew up in suburbia...I don't mind house calls for pets..people on the other hand...well heck..would have been a paramedic for people! LOL!!!!!!)...

[GrnHonu99]

Originally Posted by Fiona59

I wanted to be a ballerina but failed the national audition.

I always thought I'd work with bears or wolves.
The other fantasy job is wealthy man's mistress, just eat bonbons, go to couture shows, and ......

LMAO....thats great.

I always wanted to go to med school...still might..thinking about it...we will see how nursing treats me first

If I didn't go into the medical field I always wanted to be a detective/crime scene investigator...it's hard to rise up the ranks in the law enforcement division though and i'm only 5'4'' so I think I wouldnt be very effective!!

[Mona Mona]

Originally Posted by Fiona59

The other fantasy job is wealthy man's mistress, just eat bonbons, go to couture shows, and ......

^^^ What she said!

I want to own a bed and breakfast. Maybe if I money manage well when I am a nurse, I can save up enough to do that. Somewhere.....Maine preferably. Or Ireland.

[TriageRN_34]

ELKMNin06...hey...look into forensic nursing...great stuff!!!!!!!!!

[TriageRN_34]

Mona mona...I wanted to do that when I inherit the 11 acres of my parents. But either a B&B for parents of disabled children so they can find some time for themselves, or the disabled children themselves (the latter preffered!).

My hubby and I want to open a camp for disabled children to have some summer camp fun..but the liablity is so very much it is almost impossible (shame shame!!!!!!!!!!!!). But it is not out of the question...we live at the foothills of the coastal mountains in Oregon...gorgeous, lovely, and so peaceful..and since he is para, my best friend that wants in is PA, another MD, and several CNA's and myself...hey, it can become a reality with work!

Keep with that dream! All of you consider it too! Nursing is awesome, but at some time...well...another dream is worth the pursuit too

[PennyLane]

I'd love to be a professional singer or a musician in a world-class symphony. My two loves are music and science. But more realistically I'd probably end up a music teacher...that doesn't interest me. So I didn't major in music and to this day I somewhat regret it.

[Haunted]

I used to be a private detective before I had my son. There were times when it was everything you could imagine, car chases, spying, phone gags, photographing cheating spouses, research etc. The money was great since I was a female and could literally get beyond the "velvet rope" which made me much sought after when it came to process serving of famous people.

I was even written about in a biography of a talk show host where I did the impossible, as well as a regional magazine that carried a story about Los Angeles PI's.

Nursing has been very rewarding on many levels and has opened the door to Forensics, which I am currently completing. I am hoping to work with the Medical examiners office in a capacity that will allow me to use my scientific skills with my investigation to determine cause of death and criminal circumstance.

Dream job? Maybe, although I carry the physical scars from my PI days with a stab wound scar on my scapula along with having to alter my physical appearance in light of retaliation from those I caught in the act!