Hopes, Wishes need to turn to Goals and plans

[jhenafire]

Hi! This post is not a question, but more of an encouragement to myself and others. I am a 33 year old woman who is currently working in the healthcare field as a medical assistant to an internist. My hopes and wishes to be a nurse started off when I was probably 18 when I went to Cleveland Job Corps and completed the nursing assistant program. Unfortunately plans to be a nurse were only "hopes and wishes" I never had a set "Goal or plan" I allowed a lot of things get in the way of my life.

Now here I am. Dreams of becoming a nurse are still there, but life can be brutal, and life can also be beautiful. Life is brutiful. I had left the nursing assistant job to waitress and work in shops because it was easy money and easier to do. I was young I was immature. My father was diagnosed with cancer when I was 25 and my sister and I took care of him for 6 months before he left this earth. A few months after he passed I signed up for Medical Assistant school, I didn't go into nursing because I had big issues to take care of in my life.

My point of this post is to tell you and myself that life doesn't always go as planned there are roadblocks, detours and just plain disasters that come in our way as we walk this journey of life. So I want to tell you to not be discouraged! If you feel you will never get to where you want to but you want is SO bad! Then I know you are meant to be there. There are just a few things you need to learn first.

I want to be completely transparent as I discuss my journey into nursing. Its been a rough road and I am still not there, but I am moving forward.

Wednesday I will be taking the HESI exam at Macomb Community College. I will be applying for the program at Macomb, but due to my GPA2.73 in my 4 classes I am pretty sure I need to retake A&P and Micro unfortunately.

I am just posting this as an encouragement to all that if you really want something its going to be HARD! Like I am now experiencing.

I am also looking for friends that are on the same journey.

Thank you for listening and I will be updating through this journey because I am ready to get FIRED UP about my goals and plans for my amazing future!

I wish you the best! I hope we can be friends!

[futureLVN40]

Me too I took a long time to finally go after my dreams after having kids and I also kept chickening out of Nursing school as I thought I wasn't smart enough (still do sometimes). I am 36 years old and barely going to start working on my prerequisites and Associate's classes. I hope to get into the March 2016 LVN program and graduate before I'm 40. IF I get accepted the first attempt I will graduate at 38 y/o (my age has always discouraged me). I am taking this route to see if I can actually survive Nursing school. I have 6 kids so I'm a tiny bit skeptical, but I have a very supportive husband so I think I will make it. I just have to stay positive and remember I am doing this for my kids' future to be able to better support them, and myself of course. We CAN do this!