if you hate nursing, what would you rather do instead?

[ceccia]

just what the title asks. if you don't want to continue working in the nursing/healthcare field at all, what's your plan? what do you want to do instead? and if you hate nursing and have another idea but aren't actively pursuing it right now, why not?

(none of these questions are meant in a judgmental way at all. merely curious :-)

[ArtClassRN, ADN, RN]

I have no plans to leave nursing. But if I had to, my top three jobs:

1. Astronaut

2. Rock Star

3. Sports Illustrated Model Swimsuit Fitter.

[whichone'spink, BSN, RN]

I would like to do something more with computers and data. I am looking more at nursing informatics since I'm stuck in nursing but if I had money, I would go back to school to get a degree in computer science. And get a job at a major tech company in Silicon Valley, where I used to live. I couldn't move back to California as a nurse, as I wouldn't be able to afford living there.

[Caffeine_IV]

I don't hate the profession, but my personality isn't necessarily compatible with it. In essence, I'm a lazy person with an artistic flair who doesn't like rigid work schedules.

I'd much rather be a professional student, food critic, mystery novelist, or world traveler. Why am I not doing any of these things right now?

Being a professional student is as expensive as hell for a person who is not rich. The demand for food critics is low. Due to declining literacy rates, the demand for novelists and writers is low. And again, traveling around the world is difficult when one is not rich.

This is me exactly! When I was younger I wanted to be a writer and piano teacher..both things I enjoy and flexible but not necessarily steady pay. i

I hate many of the changes that are taking place in nursing but not the profession itself.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

I hated nursing so much I went out and got an MBA. But by the time I finished the MBA, I had fallen in love with my job. MBA is dusty now; I've been at the bedside for 36 years.

[xoemmylouox, ASN, RN]

Teacher, police officer, or firefighter.. What can I say I'm a glutton for public service and punishment :)

[Selfie]

I don't hate nursing, but i hate the bureaucracy.

I'd leave nursing to:

1. Own my own cafe- I'd make homemade meals/desserts, and have a regular clientele- like in the movie It Could Happen to You.

2. Be a fiction novelist- with a home here, one in France, and one in England, and then i'd TRAVEL.

[Selfie]

I don't hate the profession, but my personality isn't necessarily compatible with it. In essence, I'm a lazy person with an artistic flair who doesn't like rigid work schedules.

I'd much rather be a professional student.

THIS... I forgot about this.. would add that to my list if it paid anything.

Movie critic/food critic-definitely, if there were ever any openings.

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

"Would you like fries with that ? "

[Aurora77]

Commuter, you sound just like me. I actually was an artist prior to being a nurse, but needed more money to pay the bills.

I would love to be a professional student. Maybe a history professor. What I'll actually end up doing most likely is going back for my MSN and teaching nursing. Right now I enjoy bedside nursing most of the time, but I definitely can see I'll have to get out in a few years.

[elijahvegas, ASN, RN, EMT-P]

im mostly right-brained by nature. so had i the courage and gumption to pursue my true loves to make a career out of them, id do anything from graphic design, to musician, freelance artistry, music production, film production and directing--anything that allows me to flex my creative capabilities and grants me the opportunity to perpetually live in a fantasy world haha

but alas, im bound by the overwhelming urge to do something practical and sure-fire

[BSNbeauty, BSN, RN]

Im doing exactly what I love to do.

[NOADLS]

I would rather get some much needed sleep, but the money in nursing is too good.