MaggieMae412

Hi Joe V, Were the results posted somewhere else on the site?

I began nursing school in the evening/weekend program that is offered, and worked full time. At my school, if you do the part-time program the full way through, it takes 4 years to get your RN. After about 2 years in part-time, I made the transition to the full-time program, and had saved up enough money to allow myself to cut back working to 15-20hrs a week. This will allow me to graduate in Spring of 2014, instead of Fall of 2015 if I had stayed part time at school. There were about 6 others in my part-time class that made the jump as well. It'll take us a little longer than the traditional 2yr RN program, but we were allowed to have our budgets/savings take less of a hit. It's not the path I thought I'd wind up on, but I'm really happy with how its turned out! :)

I happened to meet (well, re-meet, we went to high school together) my current boyfriend about 2 months prior to starting nursing school last summer. I had gotten used to a pretty lax schedule, with only my 9-5 job in the picture at the time. I mentioned several times on our first couple of dates, "In a few months, I'm going to be working full time and going to nursing school. I have no idea what that's going to be like". However, despite the hectic schedule, we've grown quite close, and just have to be more intentional about setting aside time together than some other couples might. I think it helps that's he's really attracted to my ambition and my work ethic, so he fully supports when I just need time for school from time to time. Sometimes he even looks out for me when I kind of want to blow-off study time, and he'll say "Well, you have that big test next week, just power through!" We just celebrated our 1 year anniversary, and things are going really well. Although, he's already made one "deal" to balance things out once I'm done. He's a teacher, who has summers off, so he's told me I need to become a school nurse so we can have summers off together to make up for lost time :loveya: It may not be for everyone, but if you meet someone great, and you both know the reality of your hectic and demanding schedule and are willing to work with it, a healthy dating relationship is possible.