what do you want to be when you grow up?

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The "would you do it again" thread made me wonder: if you could have any job in the world tomorrow, what would it be?

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Specializes in LTC.

It would be one where I didn't let out a sigh of frustration at the beginning of my shift.:rolleyes:

Really I want to complete my MSN in Infomatics and do computer systems work.

I will be around 48 when I get this done, I hope I have actually grown up by then! :lol2:

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

Zookeeper!

But instead I have 2 kids, 4 cats, and a dog in a 1000sqft home... close enough!

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Specializes in MICU.

First off, this is my first post. Hello, everyone!

I'm a new grad, 5 months out of school. I'm also young, not yet married (but in a pretty serious relationship) and no kids. However, I'm almost 100% sure I want to be a stay-at-home mom some day if at all possible.

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Specializes in Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy.

I had a lot of big ideas for what I was going to do when I got out of nursing school, but at this point I'll settle for whatever job I can get. Acute care NP sounds good as a career goal, but first I'd need to get some of that acute care experience. Sigh...

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I don't even know. I get bored easily so would switch jobs every other year. I thought I could do that with nursing, but it's not been as easy as I thought. Does a lottery winner count?

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Specializes in chemical dependency detox/psych.

I would like to work as a public health nurse part time and teach a class in psych nursing the rest of the time.

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Specializes in Corrections, Cardiac, Hospice.

I am doing it.

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If I could wake up and do the job I want to be doing--skipping the school to get there?? lol--I'd be a psychiatrist, with a specialization in Trauma/Crisis/PTSD.

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Happy

But if that's too vague, then I guess I wish I could open a bakery someday... filled with squashy chairs, good music, and the walls will be lined floor to ceiling with all my favorite books... And delicious coffee and tea, can't leave that out.

Granted, I would love to just be able to be a nurse in a world where sucky people weren't allowed to exist, administration had a clue, and lazy coworkers would be shipped off to a faraway land... (bad day, sorry... not usually this cranky)

Also, I second the above posters lottery winning suggestion...

:)

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I would like to be a FBI criminal profiler like on "Criminal Minds." It probably won't happen in this lifetime.:lol2:

But hopefully for sure in my next reincarnation.;)

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An artist and musician. I'd bake fondant cakes during the day, paint pictures by the ocean at night, play my guitar until I got sleepy. :)

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