Does anyone ever just want to quit???

[ashemson]

Do any of you guys ever just want to quit school and forget this whole thing? I mean, I quit my job to go back to school. I got a student loan to pay for a sitter for my three children, and I am just starting back to work this week PT to help my bills. On top of school work, which isn't too bad right now, I just stress over the whole money issue, and thinking about paying back those loans. My youngest daughter is 2, so sometimes I think maybe I should wait until then to go back to school. I have applied to nursing for the fall, do you guys think I should wait or just plug along? I just think I would not have as many worries if I had a job right now, and no school.

SOMEONE DE-STRESS ME PLEASE!!!

[Gator,SN]

Tonight........for the first time since I started this 3 years ago.....YES! I feel like quitting.

I can't though, because I know that I can do this and I was meant for this and I have less hurdles in front of me than behind me.

I know that everyone that has ever felt this way and still keeps going forward, you all can do it too. Nothing worth having ever comes easy, and nursing is no exception, so to everyone that is feeling down, YOU CAN DO IT! IT WILL BE WORTH IT! Your day will come and this will all just be a memory!

Good luck to all!

Gator

[TCW]

I want to quit almost everyday. When I come from clinicals I feel energized and reminded of the reason I decided to go to nursing school. It is really hard. Right now I am struggling with a low B/high C average and it's disheartening. I work 40 hours a week (sometimes more) and go to school 2x a week with clinicals all day Saturday. I feel really mad at myself sometimes because I can't make the A's that I am used to and would like, but it's just so hard to find the time to do as much as I would like.

Tonya

[dstudent]

Gee I feel like giving up alot to as I really know what the meaning of strugle is now with young children, a husband that works endless hours and the kids having to go without a lot of things.

But I tell my children that it's not always going to be like this but really I think I say it more to remind myself.

[jschut, BSN, RN]

ashemson~

I can relate to exactly how you feel. Believe it or not, we will start paying off last Christmas in November (credit cards)~bill collectors call us daily, my car is in the shop with well over $1000 repairs on it, we need a new breaker box for our house, we have a short somewhere and have no electric in our bathroom or our daughters bedroom, I had to make arrangements to catch up a month on our house payment, we had to go on food stamps, and we have bills out the wazoo....

Yes, I know how you feel, but I also know that quitting was NOT an option during nursing school. This was my dream and I was going to do it come hell or high water! (Seems as if both are here!) But we will get out of this mess, and so will you.

Oh, and I am a nurse now. So I did realize my dream and I am continuing on to ASN. Praise God! He is the only true way through anything!

Hang in there kiddo....you can do this...we are here for you!