scott1p

Well, I am not young,42, and I am not old,80, so I guess i qualify to post about this. I am in Nursing school. I spent 21 years in the military, retired and then got a job as a police officer. I have realized that I do not want to help people in that fashion. I am so excited to start the nursing core (hopefully this December) and I am getting good grades in the prerequisite classes. I feel quite ready for this change and I know that I want it bad so I study hard. I think how good you are as a nurse depends on your maturity level, not age. I know many who are much older than I and would never be a good Nurse. I also know a young woman (26) who is taking classes and wants to specialize in Oncology because she had cancer and it was the nurses who helped her through that hard time. It comes down to this, why do you do your job? If it is to make a lot of money then get into stocks or investments. If you want to help people, be a nurse.

We at the Police Department bid for vacation with seniority. But everyone can only bid for one, two week period. And it goes down till the last person bids. Then later we get a second bid. That way everyone gets time off. All the other leave (vacation) is on a available basis. I.e., if there are too many people scheduled to work then you can request the time off.

I have taken a lie detector test before and you should not worry. If you did not take anything you will be fine.