Is it too late for me?

hi there,

i am 26, just applied to a nursing school, if everything goes well, (knock on wood), and i get accepted, go to school and graduate, i will graduate when i will be almost 29. am i starting too late?

anybody out there who started "late" and still succeeded?

thank you!

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roflol!!! you must be kinda new to allnurses.com. there are a bunch of us who didn't get started until later in life. i didn't begin lpn school until i was 31, and i graduated rn school when i was 36. in my lpn class, one of the ladies was in her 50's. she had gone to rn school many years before in a hospital program, and they made her quit when she got married! she wound up being an excellent nurse, and immediately got a job in a busy md's office.

good luck to you, but prepare yourself to work harder than you ever have before. it will be worth it!

I started my program at 44... and I found out today I still qualify for the Army Nurse Corps... so seriously thinking about doing this.

Well, I am relieved to find out that I am not the only one who had a degree, worked, etc in totally different field, and then decided to start NS. Right now I am in the process of preparing for the NS. I need to brush up on math, so I had a test today at the adult ed place, so I can determine what level of math I have, and start taking classes. Also, reading the NLN prep book. Sent out my papers to the NS.....keeping fingers crossed...

29 is very young comparing to one student in my class who is 50.

I'm a 4th semester Nursing student and will graduate this December. I will be 54 1/2 when I take the NCLEX and be settling in as a "Real" RN as I celebrate turning 55 next June.

You can do it!!!

I started my program at 44... and I found out today I still qualify for the Army Nurse Corps... so seriously thinking about doing this.

NO WAY! At 44????

Our average age is 25-26 y/o in our class. I am 26 right now and will graduate when I am 27. You can do it!

No, is not to late. I am 45 and still went for it...

I was recently thinking about my career. I started as an RN at age 25, if I work until 65 I will have been a nurse for 40 years. If you start at age 29 and retire by age 60 even you will have been a nurse for 31 years. Think about the long term, not the short term. Nursing school is a blink compared to the rest of your life. A blink that will enhance the rest of your life!

i just graduated from a community college with my adn. the youngest in the class was 21 and the oldest was early 50s. i would ay the average age of the entire adn class was somewhere in the mid thirties.