Thank you thank you thank you!
I was getting worried everyone was going to tell me that I'm crazy for trying to go about getting an RN this way.
Ok so I don't think I can work at my current job, I've been there for 3 years & it's very much a stale job, doing the exact same thing and numbing my brain whit little room to advance, plus it's very hard to go to school in my department, the people that have (2) were already going to school before they started and were lucky enough to almost be done (it helped that they either have no kids or had a spouse that took on more responsibility) and they were going to school for communication/advertising. Sooo much different from A & P, Micro etc... One of my friends even didn't get hired for the same position that I have because she had to have a different schedule because of classes, she was finally able to move over because she went down to only 1 night class. And I know that it would be too much of a stretch to try & take A & P, work a full 40 hour desk job & take care of 3 kids, asnd my hubby is gone 3 nights a week so there is too much room for distraction. And I want to give my all because I want this sooo much.
As far as child care - my mom has been watching my girls for the past 2 years because the NNP that worked with us in the NICU always let us know that our preemie should try & stay away from day care as long as possible. More than anything I want to give my mom a break as she has been the best ever (taking care of my girls AND working full time/nights) I couldn't be more blessed. But she's retiring early and will be able to watch the girls when I will actually be in the ADN program (which would be no sooner than August 06). Plus by then they should all be in some kind of school or pre-school. Even if it takes a while to get in I just really want to get started already. The pay cut isn't too terrible because it would mean being somewhere I want to be and I'm willing to make that sacrifice before I get sucked in by the pay of my current job and never leave. I'm going to the fin aid office today - I'm not afraid of taking out a big enough loan (I still have 16K left to pay off from my BA- yikes) I'm just afraid that I won't be awarded enough. I'm not really concerned with the debt because it will be worth it in the end.
I guess my back up plan is that I stay at my current job but I just take every non science class the program required because it would be too much for me to try the sciences & work, thus I can't apply until the spring of 07 and quit then. I can't think of anything else - all of the science classes I would rather take in a classroom setting so that I learn more (I'm a kinetic learner) and to do that I'd have to have more time available for studying. I took intro to genetics thru UT distance my senior year of college with only a waitressing job & one kiddo & it nearly knocked me off my feet!
Thanks everyone for your advice - I truly appreciate it - if there's any more feel free to keep it coming!
My master plan... Can it work??? (kinda long..sorry!!)
) so that I can pursue my ADN @ Temple College. (instead of ACC & it's big looooooong wait list)
Is this a lost cause??
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