2nd degree nurses

I think most people leave their first career because there WAS no security. That's what makes nursing so appealing.

I left my first career because there was nowhere for me to go. I found my job very boring and tedious and wanted something more exciting, something that would offer me opportunities to change things if I got bored later down the line.

I have been a nurse for a little over a year. I had been working in healthcare before I became a nurse and wanted a more patient-centered position in healthcare. I didn't have a lot of nurse friends (one family member), and I didn't volunteer. I just kind of knew it would be a good fit for me, though looking back...I had NO IDEA how difficult nursing would be. Nursing school didn't even begin to prepare me for that. There's no way to see it unless you work as a nurse or CNA.

I took a small pay cut to start as an RN because I had only been in my other career for 5 years and was still pretty entry-level. If I was management the cut would've been larger. I used to work as a lab tech in a major hospital and my previous background was BS Biology.

I went back to become a nurse because I always wanted to be one. My family pushed me towards management for many reasons and I enjoyed running social service programs for 12 years, but I still wanted to be a nurse. It was also getting to the point I was bored with sitting in an office, bored with paperwork, with doing the same thing every day. I'm still a baby nurse, but love love love my career change, even though I have a ton of school loans, and come home from work exhausted, I LOVE it

I'm coming from an IT background but am going into Nursing b/c I want to join the USAF. Due to my current age of 31, the USAF's age requirements makes Health Care my only way in. Plus I want to "make a greater difference" for people compared to my IT work.

I started nursing school in 1991, graduated in 1993 and began working in the ER. I had to leave nursing in 2005 due to a latex allergy. I had been in computers before I started nursing. I had thought about going into nursing right out of high school but was scared off by the math requirements. Funny when I did finally go to school math was not a problem for me. My only regret was that I did not go into nursing sooner. I really loved it.