i am a 26 year old male.. i finally figured out what i want to do with my life but i feel like i am to old .... my goal is to become crna after i get my bsn but it just seems so far away... i mean i will be like 32 or 33 before i can start my life.....
ok and i know this sounds stupid coming from a guy and all but i want to start a family before that age ya know?
can anyone give me some advice i just feel like i got way to late of a start to become a crna..
see so ur getting your associates rn? they dont have that hear
If you have community colleges, then you most likely have ADN (Associate Degree in Nursing) RN programs. They're all over! The hard part is getting in--most of them have many more people applying than they can take, so they are competitive and often have waiting lists.
I originally planned to apply for an ADN program, but since I'd have to take A&P and possibly Microbiology first, the earliest I'd be able to start (assuming no waiting list) is spring or even fall next year. But the LPN program at the same school doesn't have any strict prereqs (the A&P classes can be taken concurrently with the nursing classes), so I can apply now and start in the Fall this year if I can get in. They do say they favor students who've already taken the non-nursing classes, so I'll have to cross my fingers and hope my high GPA and the good test score I plan to get (taking the TEAS tomorrow morning!) will be enough to get me in.
And then if there turns out to be any delay in getting into the LPN-RN bridge program, well, I'll at least be getting nursing experience and a decent salary in the meantime.
I am still doing my Pre-reqs for one more semester and I am ready. i am 57 years old, and I don't feel TOO old at all. I, like you, finally decided what i wanted to do when I grew up.
Go for the gusto, have a great career and future for you and whomever you decide to share it with you.
As for me - I don't want to retire. I would much rather find something to do that I love and continue to do until the day before they put my body in a pinewood box.
I new a psychiatrist who was 91 y/o and still had a busy practice. He was sharp as tack and great doc. (As an aside, he was an African American and studied medicine at time when a) there were very few black doctors and b) psychiatry was largely confined to psychotherapy)
One day I asked him how he kept so sharp. "Hard work" was his reply. "I have engaged in demanding physical and intellectual work every day of my life."
As for me - I don't want to retire. I would much rather find something to do that I love and continue to do until the day before they put my body in a pinewood box.
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That is how I feel, as well. Always on the quest, always finding the purpose. As I have learned I can keep changing and refining "my something."
Would I like more free time? Of course! Would I like to be in a financial position that I never had to work? Of course. I know me though and I know if I wasn't working I would be busy volunteering or schooling or something.
if I wasn't working I would be busy volunteering or schooling or something.
I feel exactly the same. A big ol' bank account would simply provide me the freedom to take the job that interested me the most without thinking about how much it pays.
One of the NP's at a clinic were I volunteer is "big rich" (as they say in Texas). She works full time doing primary care for the underserved because she wants to. She is fabulous person, much more interesting than the rich ladies in this town that spend their days having lunch and getting waxed.
Plus, work takes you away from your spouse for a period of time each day. My mother went nuts when my father retired...
That is how I feel, as well. Always on the quest, always finding the purpose. As I have learned I can keep changing and refining "my something."
I feel the same way. I've taken to calling myself a "late bloomer" where science is concerned. :) I spend most of my days thinking, "How cool is THAT?" and appreciating the wonder of what I am learning. Not that I didn't have talents and successes before. But right here, right now "my something" is science and medicine. The other day, my Chem prof. told me I am one of the best general chemistry students he has had in 32 years! It sure made my 50-year-old self feel good to know I can kick 18-year-old butt. :) I told him I study chemistry to ward off Alzheimers. He said that even though I joked about it, he felt it was true!
The other day, my Chem prof. told me I am one of the best general chemistry students he has had in 32 years! It sure made my 50-year-old self feel good to know I can kick 18-year-old butt. :) I told him I study chemistry to ward off Alzheimers. He said that even though I joked about it, he felt it was true!
Good for you! I have no doubt that chem (and studying in general) keeps the old cogs turning. I can actively feel my brain developing like a muscle. Sometimes it hurts from overwork! I love the challenege of something new.
My thought process is so different from what it was when I was 18 or 20, in so many ways. Though I had been out of school for a long while when I returned for nursing, and forgotten so much (especially in math and chemistry!) I feel so much better prepared. I can't remember from rote like I used too, but I can UNDERSTAND so much better. My grades aren't about spouting back what the book or instructor just said, but getting the concepts in a way that I couldn't connect to when I was younger. I think real world life experience and an orificenal of ways of learning and knowing and recalling provide me with learning skills I didn't have. I think the true love of learning is there, too, not just a means to an end. I feel like if I have to take a class and have to invest my time, then darn it, Iam going to make the most out of it and get what I can from it. Otherwise it is a waste of my time. I don't feel the same luxury of youth in terms of how much time I have. When I was young I felt like some of my classes were wasting my time because they kept me from doing what I wanted, from fun. I also had a MUCH different sense of time then what I have now. If I have to do something, I refuse to allow it to be a waste.
It is interesting how we change and grow. You really do get out of it what you put in.
He said that even though I joked about it, he felt it was true!
Gambln00
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Well its actually not too hard.. I am a financial advisor right now so I know what I am talking about. all you have to do is plan properly