Is Nursing your Passion

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Is Nursing Your Passion?

Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.
Just a wee question then? Why not do someting that fulfills you, and makes your soul max out?

Because I have to earn a living. I need financial security ... a secure roof over my head, food to eat, and a retirement fund large enough to meet my needs indefinitely.

Life isn't always fair or wonderrul. Not all of us have a passion through which we can support ourselves -- just as all of us don't meet "Mr. Right" and have the perfect marriage -- just as all of us don't have perfect children, or even children at all. We don't all look beautiful on the outside. We don't have lots of natural intelligence or talent. Some of us have phyisical disabilities or infirmities that are truly bothersome. etc. etc. etc.

... and ... We don't all have a passion through which we can earn our living.

We just do the best we can with what have.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
Just a wee question then? Why not do someting that fulfills you, and makes your soul max out?
For me, the most fulfilling jobs tended to pay the least amount of money. I felt absolutely fulfilled as a direct care staff member at an ICF for the mentally retarded, but it paid less than $20,000 per year in U.S. dollars. Since I have grown accustomed to certain middle class comforts such as the suburban house, 2 newer cars, dining out, newer clothes, and a decent savings account, I must do something that will realistically pay the bills while providing a particular standard of living.
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No. Nursing is not my passion. It doesn't make me miserable or anything, but I could be just as happy doing something else. It is my job, the way I earn my living, the way I pay for the things in life that I truly enjoy doing (which cost money, rather than pay the bills, unfortunately).

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Specializes in UR/PA, Hematology/Oncology, Med Surg, Psych.

Yeah, I think it's one of my passions. But quite often I lose sight of that fact because of managment and other issues. Sometimes it seems like a co-dependent relationship in that I love it, but it can also make me miserable.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

No. I haven't found my passion yet. Perhaps like llg, I'm just going to have to be practical and take what life has to offer me at the moment, which is a career that has stability, opportunity, and a wee bit of financial security if I continue to stash away at retirement and work for another 30 years. :)

This is not to say I'm not happy because I am. I enjoy nursing in many ways and am not ever going to do anything else. I just don't wake up every day with the feeling that "my soul is maxed out".

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nvm...

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Specializes in LTC.

well, it's one of them.

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Ever since I was 4 I thought law was my passion, and even did a year of law at Uni, along with a few other minor digressions of study... then I had a good old dole bludge before I realised I'd really want to look after people.

So, drop out of uni, got off the dole, dug through all my CVs and the likes and mailed off everything and hey presto, acceptance to nursing school.

I wubs it heaps and heaps and HEAPS!! Seriously, I'm not much of a social person, but the moment I walk in the door at my work its like I'm a different person. I've finally, much to my parents' delight, found my niche!

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Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

Nursing is my living

Golf is my passion or love

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Yes,nursing is my passion and i thank God for leading me into it.I like the feelings and fulfilment in leading ppl to wellness.It is so amazing.

Azor

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haha, i couldnt agree more with TheCommuter... I get my greatest sense of passion on payday.

My first passion was dolphins... when i graduated highschool and started my pre-reqs, my dad told me to look in the paper and see what kind of living i could make liking dolphins... good idea because i know a few people with bachelors in marine science who spend thier days counting fish or birds. After they go to grad school and work for 5-10 years maybe they will be making the same amount I do.

My dad kind of made me do nursing, as a career choice. It was a smart move. I mean I am naturally caring and want to help, and eventhough it is not my passion doesnt mean I wont strive to do the best I possibly can.

During nursing school I discovered my passion was cooking. I need to cook to unwind and it brings me the purest of hapiness, I feel like I accomplished something I can share with others and nurture them in that way. I want to be a chef and see it as an art.

Parts of me want to be that nurse who says I have been in thier hospital for 30 years, but I also want to go to culinary school in about 5 years. And if it doesnt work out, at least I tried pursueing what is important to me.

But definitiely like they said before... nursing is a career choice, a means to pay the bills and not scrape by. I MAY be able to live off my passion one day... but not many people can.

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Not the way it use to be!!!

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