For some reason I was thinking about Spinal Tap, at the end, when the guy says he would sell hats if he wasn't a musician.
So if you weren't a nurse, what would you have become?
If I was being serious, probably a social worker, because when I went back to school, I was debating between social work and nursing.
If I was being whimsical, I'd be an astronaut. Even though I think I'm too tall, and know I'm too out of shape and don't have the science and engineering brain for it. But it's a fun thought!
I was looking longingly at the housekeeper working the hospital the other day. It's sad when you're an educated professional jealous of the lack of responsibility housekeepers have.
Realistic - I went to school originally to be an elementary school teacher, but I dropped out, became a CNA and the rest is history.
Whimsicle: I'd love to get paid to travel, write about traveling, have a hobby farm where I can magically afford everything and not have to worry about making money and I'd breed dogs and horses, and be a writer like Stephen King.
I love helping people so it would have to be something that I could make a difference like a teacher. Not a High School or College teacher but a grade school teacher, anything under the 2nd grade would be idea for me, I just love kids.
Hmm...I'm not sure as nursing has always been my dream and I am perfectly content and know this is what I was meant to do!
I think i'd like to open my own cafe using all local, organic and fairtrade products..using as many sustainable and environmentally friendly methods as possible...i'm really passionate about local/organic/non-GMO/envornmentally friendly food and practices as well as co-operatives.
Before I chose nursing I wanted to be a makeup-artist as well.
If I wasn't a nurse I think I'd be an accountant. I might miss health care though, so maybe a rehab specialty related profession like speech language pathologist? I always think the MRI techs have a really neat job, too.
Whimsically speaking (well.. semi-serious I suppose), I really enjoy the weather patterns and earth, so I know I'd really enjoy being a volcanolgist or meteorologist. Only problem is there aren't any volcanoes near where I live!
"All I really want to do is spend my life travelling the world, reading books that take my breath away, drinking all kinds of tea and occasionally write something. I mean is that too much to ask for?" - found on pintrest
Unfortunetly, I have not found a single person that will pay me to do the above and I do think that I would miss healthcare.
Also, I'd really like to go to medical school; I'm not sure if this is because I don't enjoy my current job and don't feel challanged or not. Regardless, it is something I just cannot get out of my head.
Whimsically: a cake decorator at the Ace of Cakes shop, ballet dancer, author....
Md/do or maybe go back to being an emt even though the pay sucked. I probably wouldn't ever leave emergency care again. I love it too much. Way too much, even when I'm griping about it.
Nursing, particularly in an ICU on the small side of medium, is my happy place. But if I decided it wasn't, I would really want to do feet in a salon. I could maybe do manicures too. Feet don't make me ill (unless the patient's ankles are hidden in a fat fold and they haven't bathed in a long while) like they do some folks, and I find them interesting. Only the quads don't enjoy a good pedi (and some of them do, the incompletes) and it's relaxing for me to do them as well.
I've already had some varied experience. I've done phlebotomy (still suck at IV's though I can make anybody bleed), data entry, insurance claims, database management, bill collecting, insurance investigating, worked a season at walmart and another at toys r us, babysitter, full time mom, cab driver and dispatcher. Nursing is more fun than all of those.
The only salon thing I could NOT do is hair, and/or shaves. Nope. Nope. Hair is not my happy place. There is grease, and dandruff, and weird stuff behind people's ears, and people don't seem to wear gloves when they deal with hair. Ugh. The worst thing of all would be someone who trims ear hair.
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PatyJackson1
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I have a BA in business and I am also a hairdresser.... I think actress or professional dancer would have been awesome! :)