Hi everyone I am new on here and have read some of the posts so feel you all maybe able to give me some advice!
So I am a college grad, I graduated a few years ago with a degree in English. Ah yes the infamous "liberal arts" degree Lol. I realized within a year of graduating that there is not a whole lot you can do with this degree unless you get lucky, have connections and maybe can get into a bank or something which I have no interest in. I was fooled by the academic advisors in school who said there's so much you can do with an English degree, and not that they lied but what they left out was that anything you CAN do is entry level with no chance for growth. So that is where I am at, a call center at 32,000 a year. I was planning to get a masters in social work but the ROI and little pay for what u put in to the degree wasn't worth it
So here I am reassessing my interests and skills and realized I have always had an interests in healthcare with a great compassion for helping people. I took a career aptitude tests after talking to a career counselor and low and behold nursing was at the top of the list!
So I've done all the shadowing and research at nauseum lol and think that I really would enjoy nursing. However so many people tell me not to go into it because they talk of the burnout, disrespect and said I'd be wasting my money to get a nursing degree. They tell me to do x-ray or something.
I never expected nursing to be a "flawless" career but with all these comments and being warned otherwise I'm getting worried of my decision.
This will be my second degree and if I enter the profession and do in fact find im not cut out for it then what? Does that mean that my degree and time in school is an entire waste? And my degree before that is a waste?
And what about my family and friends and colleagues? In your opinion do you think people will view me as irresponsible and indecisive?
I know that pursuing this will be an opportunity to better myself but sometimes the fear of the unknown in overwhelming.
Yes. Especially since I received a bachelor's, thinking that it'll be more marketable than the typical associate's. It's only more marketable if you have experience to go along with it, then you can advance in managerial roles. The only way for new rad techs to be actually marketable is to go back to school and get a second modality in medical imaging (CT, MRI, ULTRASOUND, ETC.)
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Yes. Especially since I received a bachelor's, thinking that it'll be more marketable than the typical associate's. It's only more marketable if you have experience to go along with it, then you can advance in managerial roles. The only way for new rad techs to be actually marketable is to go back to school and get a second modality in medical imaging (CT, MRI, ULTRASOUND, ETC.)