We have a newly graduated nurse prac in the office...just got her license. (contrats to her! ) She's the same age as me...42. Another nurse I work with is taking every possible nursing course she could get her hands on, she's in her 60's. One nurse, just 2 years shy of retirement age is still working full-time and has no plans of stopping any time soon. Two other nurses in my office both went back and got their BScN's in their 40's....they are now in their 50's.
I'm surrounded by some very ambitious nurses.
As for me, I'm 42 years old, have two teen boys and for now am working full time...I'll be cutting waaay back in the new year some time. I have no plans to go back to school or to take any additional courses...I'm an RN and I'll stay an RN. And as much as I enjoy being a nurse (and I'm good at it too) my biggest ambition is to "retire" when I'm 45 and do other things. (what, I don't know yet)
I feel like I'm in the minority here.
So tell me, how ambitious are you? Are you like the nurses I mentioned earlier, working to get as much as you can out of your career or are you like me, happy doing what you're doing for now but looking beyond nursing in the future? Or do you fall somewhere in between?
