Being depressed

Everyday I wake up just feels like a waiting game.

I'm an adult but feel like I'm still waiting for m y relationship situation to work out, and to get an adult job.

And when I start nursing school, its daytime, so what decent part time job can i get? I feel like I'll be an adult with a BA, but working part time at the mall on nights and weekends (which is what I did when I was a teen)

The time will fly by, trust me.

Try getting a job as a tech (patient assistant or patient care associate, diff places call them diff things) in a hospital. They love to hire nursing students and are flexible to your school schedule. It gets your foot in the door when it comes time to get a job after nursing school. Many floors will hire their techs upon successful completion of school/NCLEX.

I second Sassy Tachy.

I know the feeling of being "stuck" and wanting just to get started in my career/life, etc. While two years may seem like a long time, it is better for two years to go by and to have the degree that you want rather than still be at the same place a couple years from now. Regardless, time keeps ticking.

I would strongly encourage you to get a nursing assistant job. It is a great way to network and it will help you build your confidence and make you feel as though you are moving forward. Plus, it will look good on the resume! :)

Good luck with getting a NA job. Previous posters are right that it looks good, but in reality, I put over 80 applications in for various positions at the local hospitals and got no hits at all until I was done with my junior year of nursing school. Nobody was interested in the random person with no healthcare experience.

While I was in school, I worked at a movie theater, a hotel, and a dry cleaner.

Is not the option to restart a good thing?

Life is a dance you learn as you go. IF you are accepted.

Just finished my RN-BSN and the time went by pretty fast! You will be doing it, so you won't have time to even think about it being two years!

Annie

The time will pass whether you complete school and become a nurse, or not. Just do the next good/right thing day by day and before you know it, you will be there. It will work out.

So, I take it you decided against medical school after all?

Hey ElkPark,

I'm going to take the prereqs while I'm in nursing school.

It's really the chem1, chem2, orgo and calc based physics that's holding me back at the time. So the prereq's would take me a year and half, and nursing school would take 2.

"life" is not hitting a restart button on you. You have an opportunity...you either do it or you do not. Makes no difference to anyone but you. Were you expecting nursing school to be shorter for you than for everyone else? It is what it is. You either do it or you don't. You seem to "want" a lot of things, but wanting and doing are two separate items. Step 1. Stop whining about how bad your life is and how "life" is so bad to you. I have cared for 18 year old blown up soldiers with no legs who NEVER complain. No one is going to hand you anything. You want to be a nurse? Talk less..do more. The instant gratification of society is mind boggling to me. I don't care what you do just stop whining.

"life" is not hitting a restart button on you. You have an opportunity...you either do it or you do not. Makes no difference to anyone but you. Were you expecting nursing school to be shorter for you than for everyone else? It is what it is. You either do it or you don't. You seem to "want" a lot of things, but wanting and doing are two separate items. Step 1. Stop whining about how bad your life is and how "life" is so bad to you. I have cared for 18 year old blown up soldiers with no legs who NEVER complain. No one is going to hand you anything. You want to be a nurse? Talk less..do more. The instant gratification of society is mind boggling to me. I don't care what you do just stop whining.

I have had a very hard life. If I had family/friends that could help me I would be asking them and not a public forum.

I will continue asking, I will continue to aspire to be more than I am today, hence my screen name "Upward_Bound".

And to address your comment about instant gratification this is not it. I have an AA, BA several certs etc. I have been in school over 7 years full time (including summer) and now finished another year (pre nursing), 6 months of waiting to be accepted, then 2 years of study.

How you consider that instant gratification or whining is beyond me.