If you could do it all over again, would you?

Yes but I would have done it sooner instead of getting licensed at 30 I could have been licensed at 22..... I enjoy my job and wish I would have had it sooner. Along with the security and income for my family.

Yes but I would have done it sooner instead of getting licensed at 30 I could have been licensed at 22..... I enjoy my job and wish I would have had it sooner. Along with the security and income for my family.

I agree. Could have saved myself $80K in student loans for a master's degree that I'm not using. I also think that at a younger age, I would have had more energy and tolerance for the BS that I'm having trouble dealing with @ 31.

Mike in Michigan

A thousand time YES! ! ! But many years earlier.

When I was in college (66 - 70), they did not admit men to nursing schools, at least in Oregon.

Nope-finishing up x-ray---better hours, 2$ less per hour, 90% less BS,

Nope-finishing up x-ray---better hours, 2$ less per hour, 90% less BS,

Why not just pursue a nursing specialty? Do you have your BSN?

Nope. Would have chosen pre-med and ROTC and been a pursued an MD degree in emergency medicine. As they say tho; hindsight is 20/20. I'm an RN now, and enjoy the job.

I should have listened to an Nurse Corps officer in 1990. She told m I should look at NS. Of course I was too stubborn to accept her advice.

Absolutely!!! I have been a RN for going on 17yrs now and still love every minute of it; still look forward to going to work every day and making a difference in someones life.

I would never trade my career and profession for anything.

Best of luck.

Probably not. Can't say for sure.

yes, but as others have stated, would do it much much sooner in life.