Knowing what you know now about nursing, what other career would you have chosen?

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Given a second chance, would you have chosen a different career path and if so what would it be?

Specializes in Cath lab, EP lab, CTICU.

hmmm, if i had to do it for a job, nursing tops it all specifically being a nurse in a large teaching hospital in an urban setting in a fast paced ICU. i guess i'm lucky cause that's what i do.

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Not even through with school, but my other choice was social work. I may still do that...too.

:D You might find out that nursing and social work might end up being the same career for you after all.

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Pathologist.

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:D You might find out that nursing and social work might end up being the same career for you after all.

Nurses have to do some social work, but I've never known of a social worker doing any nursing.

Nursing does overlap social-work in some areas, but SW does not overlap nursing.

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.
i'm kinda torn with my answer to that question. i love nursing, and i can't imagine doing anything else. but i also love photography, and debated pursing education with photography. i choose nursing for the stability, because i was unsure if i could support myself with photography. now i have a great husband that is willing and able to support me, so we have debated my pursing photography. but we are still iffy about it. and i dont' want to give up nursing. we are also thinking about him starting med school. so...who knows.

i did not have a lot of sleep last night, and i'm half-watching seinfield as well as eating, so i seriously thought you typed "Mediaography" instead of "photography." made for an interesting read! :omy:

anyway, i'd still do nursing, i just would like to have known i was going to do it, so that i would have taken more appropriate courses in high school and at the beginning of college (i switched in to nursing and if weren't for my ap classes and some summer courses, i would have graduated a year after i did). i also wish i would have worked in the hospital setting earlier, and that i had realized i wanted to do or, so that i could have done this great internship near me before it became oh-so-competitive!

jess

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Specializes in Author/Business Coach.

A Pedi doc... I found out in High School how much schooling it took and decided against it, I wanted to get a paycheck sooner. So here I am a RN working on my BSN to go to CRNA school. At the time I was also toying with the idea of a Biomedical engineer.

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I don't know how you feel about this but I wish someone had taken pictures of my daughter and I before she passed away. Her younger siblings won't know her until they are way older. I have seen it offered more and more now but in the 90's it was not so readily available. To make her a real part of our family to everyone with pictures

It's something you can do and help someone at the same time

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I would have gone for a Business degree or organizational instruction

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Specializes in Respiratory, Hospice, Med-Surg, MICU,.

Marine Biologist:heartbeat

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Specializes in Operating Room Nursing.

Organisational Psychology.

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Specializes in med-surg.

I've had a chance to do research in both medical and environmental settings. I was young and wanted to do my own thing instead of going into nursing like my parents wanted me to. Back in the 80's, school counselors did not recommend nursing to intelligent young women. They recommended med school instead.

My only regret is that I didn't take my parent's advice and become a nurse back then and had to wait to rediscover nursing as a career field 20 years later. I graduate next month and so far I love it.

I am rather dreading the first year though...

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NURSING, nursing, then maybe an architect or interior decorator.

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