Nurse, RMT, Paramedic, Etc.

[Ginger_Jeff]

Hello everyone! I'm new here, just made a account yesterday lol. I'm​ looking for some opinions from people...

For the past year I was set that nursing would be my career choice, but I've had clients who are/were nurses and there's mixed results. I've heard not to go into it because they liked their work, however the politics we're killing them and they said other careers were less stressful and I have friends who are nurses who say to just get more options before jumping into anything because I'm still young.

But I mean nursing if regulated everywhere right while other careers like RMTs aren't?!

I'm 23 years old, living in Vancouver, Canada and do Shiatsu massage for work. I don't wanna ask schools because I have and usually I get a biased response such like "oh yeah become a nurse for sure!", "yeah RMT is the way to to", "occupational therapists are in demand!" You get the point.

Cheers everyone!

~ Jeff

[akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P]

Remember the old adage "the grass isn't necessarily greener on the other side." In pretty much every facet of medicine, and indeed many jobs, you'll find that politics, regulations, and the like all will have their hand in how you do things. I'm in California and I'm a Paramedic and an RN who holds a Bachelor's Degree in Sports Med. I've been a lifeguard, security guard, Paramedic, and probably a couple others. In all, I've found that you really should just follow your passion or interest, deal with the regulations and politics, do your best at what you do and when it's time to go home, leave your "work" stuff behind at work. It's fine to gather many opinions but also do your own homework and while doing this homework, often the statistics you look up will usually be a bit stale from what is the current "on the ground" reality. If you've taken statistics, you've also learned that a good statistician can pretty much make the numbers say whatever is desired...

Truly, figure out what you really want to do and you'll never "work" a day in your life. Been there... and my time as a Paramedic and RN (about 9 years total now) was never "work." That's me though. It's up to you to find out what "it" is for you. Good luck!

[Ginger_Jeff]

Ok thank you for the information. I'll probably take this year to "find myself" maybe volunteer and stuff to get a basic idea of what it might be like.

~ Jeff