Any 2nd career RNs going back to their previous careers???

good for you karenAR. at least you didn't wait until you had 20 years in nursing to realize it wasn't for you. nursing isn't for everyone and its best to get out than to stay and be miserable. the patients especially don't deserve that. my first career love is writing and i have always wanted to do it, but never really pursued it. i actually like being a nurse, but maybe one day i can use my writing skills for a healthcare column . anyway, congrats on your new editing job and good luck!!

If I could I would.

bob

No, thank you. No more middle school teaching for ME!!!!! If I get tired of this job, it'll either be something different in nursing or something completely different.

Everyone should do what they like...and education is never wasted.

KarenAR, how'd you get out so fast.
I'm sooooo jealous.....

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I would go back to my first career, if there were any way to make a decent living at it. I worked in machining and manufacturing- factory work.
I was very good at it, but manufacturing is all but dead in the US. I kept getting laid off over and over as the companies I worked for closed up shop in the US and moved all their manufacturing to Mexico.

Before entering the nursing field, my first love was art/design/illustration. I actually quit nursing school at one point and was going to get my teaching certificate to go along with a BA in Visual Art that I had previously earned.

I then decided once and for all that teaching was NOT for me and that I'd be better at nursing.

Now that I've been an RN for a little while and I've seen how stressful it is, I wish I had gotten that teaching certificate! =)

I'll probably never go back to being a designer, though. Too few jobs in this area, the pay is too low, and my first design job was a miserable failure.

I envy you though. Good for you! =)

i'm a licensed medtech before if took nursing in 1991.i never realized i would love the job when i took a nursing job in the hospital where i'm working now.in my country, the philippines, nurses are paid verrrrrry low!but i enjoy being a nurse. not like when i used to work as a medtech,just confined in the four-walled corners of the clinical laboratory.i was assigned at the ER for 10 mos when i joined the hosp in 1999.then i was trained for 2 wks at the OR/RR and has been till now.we do all the works,including housekeeping, lifting pts,being on call 24hrs a day!i got lucky in the english exams and cgfns. now, i'm reviewing for the nclex.just got my visa last may.hope to be in baltimore before winter.just think of it as fun.i'm sure you'll learn to love the job.