If you left nursing?

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If tomorrow you had to leave nursing what career would you got to?And do you think your prepared for it and do you think you would be happy doing it?

Specializes in Oncology, Med-Surgical.

Hmmmm....

I'd have to say something creative like photography, a painter or something like that. Where I could be carefree!! LOL

Amy

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Specializes in ER, PACU, OR.

i did always think about going to med school, until i saw what the insurance companies are doing to medicine. who ever thought medicare would pay more than private insurance?

taking this into consideration, always thought being a pilot would be cool. unfortunately, the airline industry currently sucks. plus, most hired are military trained, which was out from the start with my asthma.

so then i think i would consider ending up in law school! sure the ambulance chasers are scum suckers. along with most of the rest of them, along with of course...............politicians.

they work monday-friday, 1st shift....and make good money. if you get in with a local, state or federal burea the insurance benefits are unbeleivable. so..........prolly law school?

me:)

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Specializes in RETIRED Cath Lab/Cardiology/Radiology.

Many years ago I tried law school . . . FASCINATING but not my cuppa tea. But you'll never know until you try it!

I'd like to do voice-overs for animated shows, and sing, not necessarily on stage . . . sound tracks, etc.

Wouldn't mind being a forest service employee . . . working outdoors in the mts. . . . 'course, as an employee I'd have to do my assignment, and it may not be what I want to do that day! Maybe get a good mt. horse and patrol/upkeep trails . . .

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Specializes in ICU/CCU (PCCN); Heme/Onc/BMT.

I would probably think about making music ministry a full time vocation.

I'm a choir director for a small Lutheran Church. There's no money in it, but there's lots of rewards. As a music ministry, we've done a lot of neat things over the years. Our "big event" is producing "Godspell" which, every two to three years, we take on the road as part of our theater ministry. We also done a lot of cool encumenical choir projects.

My goal is to someday have a "cooking" rock-jazz style of music ministry playing original music.

Cheers, :)

Ted

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I would like to start some bed and breakfast Inns and a catering service....I also wrote three novels I could publish as I love to write and also I would love to be a back up singer for Whitney Houston ( she dont need any because she is remarkable alone) or last but not least I would love to DO NOTHING but travel the world and the seven seassssssssssssss...........

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but when i was young and not walking with a cane and asking for assist to cross the road............

these are things i would have been asking for also.........

but then again my mind wanders and fablbles...............

so please deal gently with me in my elderly age.................

"more in this post than probably most will realize"..................

and if you don't that is k' also...........'cause we is all human.............

and ...............................??????????????????

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Move to somewhere near ocean and mountains...be an independently wealthy professional student, avoiding all real responsibilities.

Masseuse by day, singer by night...with plenty of time for painting, learning musical instruments, and photography. Be an interpreter.

Own some businesses, with someone trustworthy to run them so I don't have to...like the coffeehouse/bookstore idea...daycare sounds fun...

Plant things in my garden...be a bartender...a dancer (not necessarily the stripping kind) ;)

Plenty of time left over for my running/lifting/yoga/Pilates...

And of course, I'd be a certified professional napper! ;)

I don't ask for much...

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Specializes in ER, PACU, OR.

well i guess there are a lot of things i didn't think about? i guess i was thinking along the lines of, something where you could easily support yourself.

however, after seeing some of the posts.......how about a nice 55ft sailboat in the ocean. a seasonal bed and breakfast place in the bvi's. while doing that, doing scuba tours. then in the off-season (hurricane time, which coincidentally scares the h*ll out of me), maybe a place in the mountains somewhere warm.

in the end i want to be warm! :D

me :)

p.s. - nice to dream huh? yeah yeah yeah...... back to reality! :o

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Specializes in Hospice, ER, Telemetry.

I would become the person that rents lawn chairs and unbrella on the beach!!

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Specializes in Hospice and palliative care.

I'd either challenge the paramedic exam in my state and go back to EMS or go back and do chemistry :p so I could be a CSI, just like on the show! I find that stuff very fascinating! If I had known my school offered forensic nursing as a minor (I'm in another minor) I would have done that one, along with the health leadership courses I'm doing now. Oh well :eek:

If none of the above worked out, I'd go for bartending

Laurie

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I wish, oh how I wish, I could go back to working the best summer job I ever had - driving a horse and buggy.

I'll never forget that summer. My horse was "King" a Belgian draft horse. He was such a sweetie. He was the only horse I could take downtown on Beale Street in Memphis on a weekend and the crowds didn't bother him. One night we were sitting in front of Famous Amos' Chocolate Chip cookie shop, I was munching on some cookies (quite naturally) and he was munching on some carrots a shopkeeper gave him as we listened to the blues being played by some sidewalk musicians. I thought to myself, this is the life. I get to dress up in a derby and Col. Sanders bowtie, sit on a beautiful carriage, ride through downtown, know the history of all the buildings and sites, and kinda fulfill that childhood dream of having my own horse. Ahhhhhh..............:balloons:

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The only other job I could imagine doing, and loving, would be my already OTHER full-time job ---- Mom of 4!!!! How I would love to be able to stay home with my kids and be wife and Mom full time, and not have to share my time with work. :) I do love my job too, but sheeeeeesh, as I'm sure many of you can relate, my kids are growing so fast, and with 4 of them....I work overtime (at life in general) all the time!!!! :chuckle

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