mwilburn

Right now I'm at a small company, like 4 employees small. My benefits include 1 day vacation per year of service (so I'm at 3 days), they pay half my health insurance, and they are super flexible. I also have no paid holidays and make $11.50 per hour. I love the people i work with but i feel like I'm throwing my life away and wasting my time and not helping my family enough financially. That said, financially i really don't think we can swing me not working and going to nursing school right now. I've pretty much decided to further my education and get my bachelors in health care administration. Later on, after I've worked in a health care setting and we get financially able, i may go back then and go into nursing.

I have been told to do a job shadow to "spend a day" to get up close and see what is like. Do you suggest that also?

Hi there! I am about to turn 33. I have a wonderful husband and 2 precious little girls ages 6 and 9. I have an associates degree in business, and I am an office manager in a telecommunications office. Every since I was a little girl, I wanted to be a nurse. Back then, I wanted to be a neonatal intensive care nurse. BUT.....time and life goes on and sometimes leaves our dreams left in a dark corner locked a way seeming virtually unattainable. I still take little glimpses of my dream and rays of hope, that one day it may become reality, shine. The spark of obtaining my dream has rekindled, and it is almost a consuming fire. I really want to go back to school to become a nurse, but I also need to work a full time job and raise a family in the process. I am scared I will fail either in my college studies, or fail my family...or BOTH! Has anyone else went through these same feelings?? Any insight from nurses and nursing students would be greatly appreciated!