How Can This Be Done?????Help..Advice

[Med409]

Hello to All,

I am planning to go back to school this fall and I know there are some single parents out there. So, my question is..is how can this be done? I know it will be awhile before I get into the Nursing course...but when I get there how can it be done? They say you practically cannot work and I am the soul provider for me and my son. Some people say "What about your parents,aunts,uncles"? Well, not to make up an excuse, but reality cause that is what I like to deal with.. my parents are full time working people ..in addition to my father being a busy Pastor then my brother ...jeesh... he is single, with no strings attached (so you know I never see him) , then my sister..too busy for words to even mention. So, I want to hear from anyone but mainly the people that don't have that much support and struggling on there own.. how do you do it? I know it can be done..and Im not saying that my family will never help but I just look at both sides to everything.. thanks a bunch

Med409 (April)

[menetopali]

April,

A couple of quick ideas for you...

look at cost of schools in different areas and states, you'd be amazed at how much some places cost compared to others. move if you need to to find the best cost of school vs. income potential ratio. look for loans, grants, and scholarships from everywhere. and here's the doozy, get a CNA at night, go to work for a hospital that has a tuition remission program for becoming an RN and try to find others who are or have been where you are to form an interdependant group support. As for the CNA program, many places have free courses that are either operated by a facility in exchange for obligation to work for some fixed period of time or sponsored by the government to boost the number of CNAs in the area (I did this in Loudon County Virginia). Once you're a CNA, many places will help with the tuition (again in return for obligation to work for them) and many CCs and some hospitals even provide access to daycare while at work and in school. hang in there, it can be done, just live cheap, dig up the programs that will help out the most, and remember there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

[WhyO]

I am laughing right now at the pauper lifestyle...

I always used to shop for my clothes at the Salvation Army (and still drop in from time to time). I was a nurse for three years before I finally broked down and bought a NEW pair of jeans. My husband was laughing, he said that in the entire time we have known each other (7 years) I had never been out of the Salvy...

No, I didn't look like a bum, in fact, i have a pretty fun style just more um.. retro.... um....