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I can't answer any of your questions but you sound like me. I have been teaching now for 7 years and want out. I totally understand about the bring work home that teachers have to do. My plan is to do 3 more years as a teacher and then start nursing school. I am starting my pre-reqs this summer I'm only taking one class at a time because I also have two small kids (twin 2 year olds) and I still need to work. Also, I have student loans debt so I'm paying completely out of my pocket (no more loans for me). I'm 31 and hope by 40 to be a Nurse Practioner. I'm going to take it one day (semester) at a time and just try to work my plan. Just wanted to add my .

I left off that the student that hit my yesterday kicked another teacher in the face her glasses were knocked into her eyes and she now has perminate eye socket damage. This happen at the begining of the school year and nothing was done to the student not evern a phone call to the parent.

Thanks for the insight jk82 those are things that I hadn't thought of within the nursing field that is why I really enjoy this sight. But on the flipside teaching (for me) is not my calling. I was hit in the chest, just yesterday, by a 1st grader and it took everything in my NOT to throw him out the window. I had to remind myself that he is a child and someone loves him. He is in the wrong setting (I teach special education but this student needs to be in a special education school not class) but with all the budget cuts he ended up in my class most of the day. I can say out of my six years teaching, that is only my 2nd time being hit. I have never been called out of my name but I have heard students call the principal and vice principal out of their name to their faces. I know you maybe thinking that it has a lot to do with the school I'm at and the type of students I deal with. I have been at three different schools and my first two years where at a high school. I left highschool because I thought elementary would be better. I was NEVER hit by a student in highschool just didn't like working with highschoolers. Because I have children I always ask myself would I want a teacher like me (not happy with their job) teaching my child and my answer is no. At least when you are working with adults and someone is to hit you they go to jail or you can sue, not with children you have to take it, if you get hurt that is on you (your insurance, your time off). I feel like working as a nurse you are working with people who WANT your help and you are not fighting with people (kids) to take your help. But if teaching is where you want to be go for it. Your expericence might be better then mine and my expericence might be better then yours. But I really did like your post. Thanks

Thanks Melanie 19877 for the positive words and teaching is a never ending job. damrcngrl95 I'm glad to know that there other teachers who feel my pain about the crazyness of teaching. I would love the links to apply for the jobs. Thanks

I will be taking my FIRST class this summer which is Biology I and the lab. But I have a total of I think 7 or 8 classes in all to take, Then I can apply for nursing school.

Thanks for the reply A Sanor and I admire you for having another child after the twins!!!:bowingpur Knowing that I'm not the only one in this situation gives me hope. I am also paying out of pocket and working full time (until I start nursing school) no more loans for me!!! That was a good point about having to payback the student loan if I stay where I am or not.

High debt is over 60g!!! I all ways thought about being a nurse but was always told it was a hard field so I moved away (being young and not being knowing any thing else). I no longer what to teach because of all the crap that goes with teaching now a days. With nursing when you leave work you do not have to take home 50+ papers to grade, parents to call, weekly folders that have to go home, ice cream money that has to be turned in by 8. Also, displining other people kids who can't do anything with them at home but want you to make them sit, listen and learn, and GOD forbid if they can't pass the state test. You are the worst teacher ever let the addminstrators and their parents tell it. The list goes on and on...some people love it but I'm not one of them.

Hi everyone...I have been teaching now for six years and have gotten bruned out. I now want to became a nurse but I am so scared to change careers. I have high student loans debt because I went to a private school to get certified and my Masters in education. I also started working on a leadership in education degree and racked up even more debt because I stop when I found out me and my husband was expecting our first child which turned out to be twins! My husband is very supportive in my career change decision but we both have concerns about when I will have to stop working to complete nursing school. He makes ok money but we have never had to live off one income before. I just wanted to know if anyone out their changed their career at or after 30 or later, in a "bad" economy, with high student loans to payback and small kids (the twins or now 17 months). Is changing career with all this going on a good idea??? And do y'all (I'm from the south) think the nursing field will have picked up by 2013 or 2014 (the year I plan on finishing hopfully)?

I am currently a teacher and want to get out of teaching and become a nurse. I have been teaching for six years now and cring at the thought of doing this for 24 more years (my plan is to retire after 30 years). I have read many good and bad things about nuring but the bad doesn't seem to out weigh the good when compaired to teaching. The reason I went into teaching is because my mother wanted to be a teacher but never became one. My mother "drilled" my and my sister with great things about being a teacher but never talked about the bad because she was never one. So because me and my sister was brain washed into being teachers we both became teachers not knowing anything else to be:confused:. I hate to change careers at 30 but after reading some of the post about people changing careers at 50 I don't feel so bad. But to each it's own, some people love teaching I'm just not one of them! Nuring field here I come!!!!