RN to BSN bridge question.

[Zooey72]

My plan is to become an RN, and than once I start working to have my employer (hopefully) pay for my schooling and take a class or 2 a semester until I get my BSN. My question is this:

I have cleared out my life for the next 2 years while I become and RN. I have no work, kids, or anything else that could be a distraction. Once I am an RN, how feasible is it to take a couple of classes and still work? I am hoping the bridge program is not as intense as becoming an RN, because if it is I don't see how it can be done and work at the same time. From what I have heard it is mostly online, so that being the case I can't imagine it being the huge time sink hole that becoming an RN is.

[cracklingkraken, ASN, RN]

My plan is to become an RN, and than once I start working to have my employer (hopefully) pay for my schooling and take a class or 2 a semester until I get my BSN. My question is this:

I have cleared out my life for the next 2 years while I become and RN. I have no work, kids, or anything else that could be a distraction. Once I am an RN, how feasible is it to take a couple of classes and still work? I am hoping the bridge program is not as intense as becoming an RN, because if it is I don't see how it can be done and work at the same time. From what I have heard it is mostly online, so that being the case I can't imagine it being the huge time sink hole that becoming an RN is.

I know many people who have completed their RN-BSN online program in 1 yr or more while working FT at a hospital without any issues. It's doable.