Professions before nursing

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Hey just out of curiousity, what did you guys did before nursing?

1.) high school jobs: worked as McDonalds/Pizza Hut, started nursing school straight from high school!

Before I decided to go into nursing, I THOUGHT I wanted to go into the funeral industry so I worked for a local funeral home doing removals.

While doing my prereqs I was a mortgage processor and an insurance inspector. Now I am ONE (and a week) semester from my LAST semester!! Woot Woot!

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Specializes in acute rehab, med surg, LTC, peds, home c.

Grocery story cashier, Dunkin Donuts, amusement park cashier, all this before the age of 18. Then I took a CHHA course and the rest is history. CNA>LPN>RN>BSN

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Specializes in scrub tech 3 year, Circulator 2 years.

I worked as a restaurant manager for 13 years and then as a convenience store manager for 13 years and the job that broke me in retail I was a district manager for a convenience store chain for 5 years. I started out by becoming a surgical tech and after a year went back for nursing. So much for a mid life crisis

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Specializes in CCU,ICU,ER retired.

movie theaters=sold candy and popcorn, factories=plastics and computers, grocery stores, bartender and watress. monitor tech and then nurse. Now not a dang thing-retired.

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Specializes in Assisted Living Nurse Manager.

Air force at 17 then worked for various grocery stores eventually in a managment position, moved on to become a certified medical assistant in my 30's. Eleven years later LPN and now RN MAY 2010.

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I love these questions. So here goes---Textile (sewing mill), vet's office, plastics, carpet,chicken, library, hospital. J

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Hey just out of curiousity, what did you guys did before nursing?

Let's see....

Quality Engineer, Mechanical Designer, Project Manager, Mechanical Engineer, Salesperson, Clerical Temp Agency Worker, Sheet Metal Worker, Bartender, Short Order Cook, Dishwasher, Busboy, Waiter, Grocery Store Bagger, Caddy (golf), and paperboy.

I might have missed a couple.

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Specializes in ER, IICU, PCU, PACU, EMS.

BA in psychology then Flight Attendant and US Naval Reserves in Intelligence, then Police Officer, Structural and Aircraft Rescue FireFighter, EMT-Basic, Paramedic, then Nurse.

I still don't know what I'm going to do when I grow up....

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I think I might win this one.:coollook:

In the late 70s I was an Army medic/ortho Tech. After the military I worked my way through college as a habilitation tech, and did ortho at the VA. However I soon found that being 6 foot four and 240 pounds I made more money bouncing and bartending,followed up with opening a small moving and storage company. After all that played out I studied hypnosis/NLP on a lark, and did seminars (smoking) throughout the United States, Australia, and England. for a few years. Honestly though, I had an ethical problem with the efficacy of hypnosis/NLP and gave up lecturing.

Wanting to return to school, I took a job with an old acquaintance managing a small chain of gentlemen's clubs (I hope I don't get flamed for that:devil:),while slowly taking all my prerequisites for nursing school. I then opened up my own bar and Grill near Santa Barbara thinking that that would be a great income while in school. I was wrong. I would have been better off giving everyone that walked in the door $20 and told them to eat down the block. However one day nearby, I discovered a new cardiac sonography program, and attended that. (Big $50 K. unaccredited mistake!) So while trying to recover financially, I jumped in the truck for a few years and pulled a set of doubles up and down America's freeways, only rolling over once on the ice in Wyoming.

Finally I spent then next three years on a half dozen nursing program wait lists, but that was all right because I was able to stash money in the bank. However after one month in my prized program I had an accident on my Harley, and broke my leg requiring surgery. So here I am regaining my strength and flexibility while waiting to return to nursing school in January. it's only taken me 30 years to come full circle, medic to RN.

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Waitress/Bartender

House cleaning service

Corporate Librarian (several international companies)

RN

moving on - dunno whats next,

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.

I had my first job at 11, delivering newspapers. I did it for 6 years. Then I was a cashier at a now-closed retail chain, factory worker (one of the few who spoke English), hotel maid in the Berkshires (liked the work, hated the customers), office temp, computer tech, more temp work (I hated temping), barista, and CSR for a delivery service. Along the way, I earned a BA in English. I tried to be a tech writer around the time outsourcing took off.

I stagnated as a CSR for years. I like working with people, so I considered either nursing or Rad Tech school. Then I got put on a special project at work that showed me just how dysfunctional things were. I went to nursing school.

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McDonalds - 1st job at 16

Hotel maid

Waitress

Vet tech

Ranch hand/trail guide

video rental clerk

dog groomer

US Army MP

Security guard

SAHM

RN

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