Solid Snake

I saw this post on another general discussion website, and by far this is the most disgusting thing i have read. TMI http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3097085&pagenumber=10#post358028000

Changed my mind again, gonna tough it out at community college. To me, paying $30K for classes I can get for 1/10th the price isn't smart, I can wait:pumpiron:. Just going to take the minimum amount of hours. I was giving up before even trying. I will keep my job as long as I can, when I get to the clinical I can think about going full time, we will see though.

That sounds like a perfect program for me, I wish Glendora wasn't so far away, it will be 300 miles a week just for school.

I talked to my aunt, who is a retired RN, and one of the people pushing myself into nursing. She says she will support me if needed through school. I have assets from my dad I will take and liquify some of them for rent and gas while I am in school. Becoming a nurse is something I have to do, I like the company I am at but netting $1000 a month isn't good in a city where most rent starts at $1300. I am looking at a 1 year LVN program, probably American Career College.

Getting paid to help people. I come from a family of nurses, and never really considered the field till my dad got sick. I took care of him for a year till he passed, I came in every day and watched what the female nurses did. Now I don't want to say nursing is easy, but I figured if a woman could do it a guy could do it just as well, plus the guys working there weren't all feminine and sensitive like the way they are portrayed on TV often (not that there is anything wrong with being that way). Also the pay, the idea of making $20+ per hour to start (depending on where you are), a full time job, and the possibility of working 3, 12 hour shifts and having 4 days off sounds pretty sweet. Some nurses make as much as or more than doctors.

I currently work part time with a pretty good company, I get full benefits and on the 25th I will have 8 years...BUT.. I am limited in my career paths. I have already decided to go to nursing school, going to go get my LVn then LVN to ADN. I am trying to decide if I will keep my job while in school. I come from a family of nurses, they all recommend that I not work while in school, but I still need to pay rent. I don't know what Iam going to do. I eventually want to quit my current job once I graduate, but I would least like to hold on for a year or so while I am in school.