blkrose

Thank you for responding cad2nurse, everything you said makes perfect sense and with your confidence I can see you succeeding. Im sure if I adopt the same perspective I will too. Thanks Again

I apologize in advance if something similiar has already been posted. It seems like I always do things late in life and always at the wrong time. Ive always had a strong interest in the medical field, my first career choice since the age of 10 was to become a Pediatrician. I have so many excuses as to why I didnt become sucessful but the truth is my focus just wasnt there. Now at 30 I feel like I do have the focus and since recently being laid off have decided that this is the oppurtunity for me to return to school and actually finish. Interesting enough when I was younger I never entertained becoming a nurse because I felt it was too common, a choice that everyone thought of for you as a woman, I know, I know :smackingf However now Im trying to get into a program that seems like EVERYONE suddenly has the focus for as well whether because its a field they were always interested in or they feel its job security. For the most part Ive gotten over the depression of wasting so many years not completing school and feeling like Im too old to go back but now theres the discouragement of sooo many pursuing a field that doesnt seem to be hiring any new graduates . I read an article a couple of days ago concerning this, in part the article was saying that schools are cashing in on the phrase "nursing shortage" when this is really no longer true. Older nurses that have reached retirement age are no longer retiring because of the economy and hospitals are not hiring because they do not want or have not budgeted to train nursing graduates:banghead: . How do you feel about going back to school, spending time studying and possibly accruing more student loan debt only to not be able to find a job after you graduate? Or are you just hoping that the year or two it takes you to finish that the economy would have turned around by then?............Are we wasting even more of our time