Nurses General Nursing
Published Nov 4, 2006
I'm very curious to see some of the answers here! If I wasn't able to do nursing, I would have done social work!
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UM Review RN, ASN, RN
1 Article; 5,163 Posts
Photography, interior design, or writing, since I'm now too old to be a racecar driver.
Dieselmota
29 Posts
A creative writer of poetry and short prose.
slou!
178 Posts
I actually would have become a speech pathologist; I was in my second semester in that Master's program when I decided to pursue nursing. This was back in 1982 and most SLP jobs were in schools but I wanted to work with adult stroke victims in that field. I heard there weren't many of those jobs so went to nursing instead. Well, I've had quite a taste of nursing now(21 yrs) and if I could financially do it, I'd return to speech pathology.
That was one of my reasons too! I did not want to work in a school, although I did want to work with children.
hhrhrn41, RN
33 Posts
I would have either went to school to be a veterinarian or obtained whatever degree would qualify me to open my own chain of daycares, like Kindercare and such.
TrudyRN
1,343 Posts
social work, librarian, interior designer, owner of my own business of any kind that doesn't have anything to do with sick people in sad circumstances; oh, and maybe a lawyer or a writer or a worker with flowers or a wedding planner/coordinator or a pianist or a million other things. Life is too short, isn't it?
LOL I always say - what's right today for a person isn't necessarily right for all time. People go through various phases, interests and abilities change. I guess where there's life, there's the possibility of change.
zolly786
40 Posts
i'd be a pharmacist. i love that aspect of health care, and my husband (who does community pharmacy) makes 60% more than i do.
i can't justify another 5 years of school, and having to move 8 hours away from here. and i still love nursing, so why change jobs?
all4schwa
524 Posts
if i wasn't a nurse i would want to be a surgical tech. and if we are talking out of the hospital, i would want to be a biologist or a teacher or maybe a biology professor.
Brotherbob, BSN, RN
100 Posts
If I had not been a nurse might have worked at sea, or news photography.
bearsnurse
22 Posts
In college I applied for a spot in journalism but ended up enrolling in a nursing program but if i would have pursued journalism I would love to be a travel/food journalist imagine globe troting seeing the world and learning about other people's culture i think it's the coolest job ever but i have done the travelling bit through nursing...
Lacie, BSN, RN
1,037 Posts
I was a police officer prior to going to nursing school. Switched as my po husband felt it was "too dangerous". Nursing was my secondary choice actually. Looking back I wish I had stayed in the profession and do miss it. I put up with more BS as an RN than I did as an Officer.
Ruthiegal
280 Posts
I'm very curious to see some of the answers here! If I wasn't able to do nursing, I would have done social work! :balloons:
Marine Biologist! :)
sanctuary, BSN, MSN, RN
467 Posts
Nun in an orphanage
Psychiatrist
Writer
Electrician
Portrait Photographer