anyone else changing careers to go into nursing?

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Hi everyone!

Is anyone else here totally changing careers to go to nursing school? I guess I'm looking for a little encouragement that it's OK for me to want to get out of the corporate/business world that I HATE and go into nursing!

What are your thoughts and reasons? Here's a little about me -- I have a degree in Advertising and I've been in the business world for almost 5 years now. I just have no interest in business-related things, and I have no desire to climb the proverbial corporate ladder. To me, nursing seems like something totally different from that. I can't say I've had a passion for it my whole life, like some people can. It only just occurred to me about 6 months ago. But I just want something different -- I HATE sitting at a computer and being bored out of my mind for 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week!!

Anyone else in a similar situation?

amy :)

Specializes in ICU, Oncology.

YOU'RE NOT ALONE!!! I absolutely HATE the business world. I'm bored stiff. The only challenge is getting to the end of the hallway without getting a knife to the back...know what I mean? The rest of it seems so meaningless to me. Currently, I work in marketing as a product manager for a pet products company. By the sound of it, you think it would be fun, huh? It sometimes is fun...I love animals...but my job seems a little meaningless at times.

The biggest mistake I made when graduating from college is not immediately going back to school for nursing. I originally hoped to go to pharmacy school the first time around (I got a B.S. in biology)...but I volunteered in a pharmacy and decided it was too boring. That's when I decided that nursing would probably be my best option. I just was not mentally or financially prepared to go right back to school after the B.S.

I'm rambling now....anyway...good luck in your quest! You're not crazy!

i graduated from college a long time ago (BSEE) and hate to say but i did not like my line of job and my passion to help other is not applicable to that kind of work. i decided to change career and pursuing nursing as my last career because of my passion in helping individual in which i saw from a nurse helping my Dad until his last breath she was there, and also to be a model to my kids when they grow up.

Nat

Yes! Actually I wasn't able to get into the business arena of the workforce. I have a B.S. in Business Admin., but I was unable to get a job. I've been trying for the last 2 years. I graduated from Fayetteville State University in 2003 and still no luck. I can't give much advice because I begin a RN program in Jan. 2006. I'm tired of searching and getting deadends. This isn't the only reason for a career change.

I would like a career that impacts and changes the lives of people and nursing (I believe) is the way to go. Also, I've always had the desire to be an obstetrician or a pediatrician. So, this is close to that desire. I don't know if I will pursue being an obstetrician or pediatrician because I've found an interest in neonatology.

So you are not alone.

mjcrn

I changed carries in my 40's a went back to school for nursing and just graduated in May of this year. Go for it, if it is something you have always wanted to do I say go for it. Will it be hard, yes but an older student I think does better because they are sometimes more serious about school then the younger one are.

I'm 28 yrs old and I have went from CNA to Cosmetologist now Nursing. I'm still a CNA right now and I think healthcare is my calling. Its what I've always known.

For 7 years I worked as a Project Engineer at a tier one automotive supplier. I have an AS in Mechanical Engineering. I let others talk me out of going into nursing when I started college. I would not change the experience I had as an Engineer for anything. I am MUCH happier as a nurse (LPN) now. I am 10 months away from my state board exams for RN....can't wait to get that!

I to cannot stand sitting at a desk all day, seeing the same people day after day after day, its like a nightmare. SOOOOOOOOOOOO boring. My favorite job was waiting tables I sometimes wonder if college was worth it. But I think I'm gonna start my prereq in January I hope I know what I'm doing. I figure at least it won't be boring, and there will always be a job out there.

Specializes in SRNA.

That's funny! I always said the same thing. Waiting tables was much better than my boring-orifice desk job and you'll use those waiter talents in nursing.

-S

I to cannot stand sitting at a desk all day, seeing the same people day after day after day, its like a nightmare. SOOOOOOOOOOOO boring. My favorite job was waiting tables I sometimes wonder if college was worth it. But I think I'm gonna start my prereq in January I hope I know what I'm doing. I figure at least it won't be boring, and there will always be a job out there.

I was/have been in the game industry for 4 years, first in Customer Service and then in game design. I'm switching to become a nurse. I just can't see myself doing such a fruitless job for the rest of my life. It was going to go no where and was very unstable. I've always wanted to be a nurse, but the urge and want kinda went dormate when so many changes were going through my life; I moved from New York to California, married my soul mate and then moved to Texas! (woo!) I'm going to be a CNA on Orthropedics. I'm excited. ;) Next, my ADN!

I am in the exact same situation. I have just finished up all my general ed classes and accounting classes to transfer to a state university. I have been working with a great accounting firm that is giving me tons of experience in accounting, but I just can't stand the number crunching. I've been racking my brain to figure out what I want to do with my life. I've been trying to decided between nursing and being a teacher. I finally decided on nursing because it seems much more exciting and I know I can really make a difference in nursing.:nurse:

Keep up the hard work - I wrote my post on this thread years ago. Since then I've finished my ADN, BSN and 1/3 of my MSN. It's an exciting journey! Pre-licensure classes and pre-reqs seemed the most difficult - odd isn't it?

I'm a medical transcriptionist. Last yr I was going to enter the surg tech program....then I was diagnosed with epilepsy and was told no way until I got everything under control.

I'm now 6 months pregnant with our 2nd child and want to go back to school, but this time for RN. I've got my pre-requisites for Surg Tech still, so it's not the full 2 yrs....but there's only one reasonably priced school here that offers a night program so I can stay home with the little one. There is a day one near by, but it'd have to wait until he's a bit older.

My current field is basically being phased out...either by electronic records or by companies outsourcing to India. I've always loved medicine...my favorite has always been surgery, but I like other fields too, and realize that with a 2 yr RN my choices won't be as great, but from what I've seen on this board as a lurker, the general agreement is that a RN-BSN track is for me. The 4-yr school wouldn't be 4 yrs but it'll be more expensive, they have only day programs, and they don't seem to be as flexible.

Anyhow, there's my long post. Hopefully I'll get to be in an OR, but for right now, I just want to finally finish SOMETHING and finally go work in a hospital or other place where I can help people AND help put food on the table.

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