Professions before nursing

[nursebrandie28]

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!

[86toronado, BSN, RN]

Ages 16-18: Server at a casual restaurant chain

18-19: Math tutor (and I'm not even good at math)

19 still: Line cook at an upscale resort

Still 19: Office assistant (learned from this one that I never ever want to work in an office setting again!)

20-21: Line cook, and sometimes banquet waitress for an upscale hotel

21-22: banquet manager for same hotel

22-23: Sous chef for Harvard Business School, and sometimes bartender on the side

23-27: Sous chef and then Catering Manager at Boston University

27-29: Got my first hospital job (unit clerk), then progressed to PCT while in nursing school

29-now: finally became an RN in June, 2009, and now I make more money working 36 hours a week than I did working 60+ in food service!

[smileyperson]

My 18 year work history: Burger King, janitor, delivery man, landscaper, webmaster, programmer analyst, software engineer, systems engineer, military field support engineer.

I'm hoping to add LPN and physician assistant to that list!

[AnnieRN2B]

Dental Hygienist, Special Ed Teacher, Currently ROP(vocational ed ) Substitute, I cant wait to get my RN and teach vocational ed 4ever!