FormerLawyer

Oh, Mclennan, I love your plan, you are awesome! I am going to go to school for nursing as well. I;m starting my pre-reqs in the Spring, and I am currently working full time. I make terrible money (legal advocate at a women's shelter), but I love my job. I am living at home, and I'm saving half of my monthly wages for the program. I'm also planning to get a second job and that one will be the one I keep during my nursing program. Good luck with everything. Just plan as best as you can and avoid the student loan debt if you can. I went to law school and was not able to, this time around I know better.

I'd have to take all the pre-reqs at grand Valley and they are too far away from where I am living to make this feasible. I'm pretty sure at this point, I'm going the ADN route. I've done enough research on the job market where I am seeking my first job to know this decision won;t hurt me. And at some point, I'll probably want my BSN, but financially, it's not feasible now. And I have to be in school now, while working full time, to get the in school deferment on my 100k+ of law school debt. But thank you fro taking the time to answer me. :)

Maybe you should take a few years off to decide what you want to do? I wish that I had done that before I got my JD. I realized, way too late, that I should have pursued a degree in nursing, like i wanted to do my first year in college. You can take the time off, and start saving money and pay for school that way, it;s better than loans, take it from someone who owes Uncle Sam over 100k.

Maybe she is just worried she will have to train another nurse? Has she been mean to you or anything since this occurred? I mean, she might just be worried. I know that in my jobs when my bosses would get calls about me and another job they would sometimes get anxious because they didn't want me to leave. I was sometimes seeking part time as well. Just assure her you are looking to pick up some additional hours somewhere, let her know why, and make sure you tell her you enjoy working on her unit with her. Just try to smooth over any ruffled feathers?

You know everything the teacher covered in class? That's just the base for what you need to know. You also need to know all of the stuff in the books. The professors cannot teach the books again, they don't have the time. I'm sorry it was rough for you and the class, and I understand being upset.

I found that when I am busy, I get a lot more done because it forces me to prioritize. You will be okay if you get rejected again. I have two friends who failed the bar twice, and they have both lived (possibly the alcohol consumption from the depression has preserved them nicely---kidding!) One thing I would suggest though, if you do get rejected a second time, call the school and speak to the committee or however the decisions are made, and ask them why you were not selected. Ask them what you can do to stand a better chance the third time. Don't give up. You will find that this experience will help you later, you will appreciate the program more and it will motivate you to do even better once you do get in. Also, talking to them about why you were not selected, and what you can do in the future will help you to be more in control of the situation and that will lessen your anxiety about the situation!

Congrats on the job!

Where I live (smallish town), ADNs get hired from the local community college even before they take their exams. It's crazy, the hospital tends to hire these grads because of them do clinicals and internships in this hospital and they have a good relationship with the community college. My mother has worked their for 33 years and she tells me they have a pretty high turn over, the hospital hires these new RNs, they work for a year or two and spring board into bigger cities. It really depends where you are from, and more importantly, where you want to go. Where do the grads where you go to school get their jobs? Also, I just want to commend you for thinking about jobs ahead of time. It seems like lots of people are going to school and only looking as far ahead as one semester and that's not setting themselves up for success!

I think if you can swing it, an internship is always the way to go. If you can't get one, then you can try and volunteer somewhere? It's always good to have some experience to list on your resume. When I was in my post-grad program, i did three internships.

Talk to them first. it will look better and less like you are hiding something. Second, stop fixating on the fact that you plead to something less than you were charged with. Do not mention that. At all. What is on your record, is what you plead to. So, just talk about the misdemeanor. If you can, I would call the hospital right now and find someone to talk to, because you are already feeling that a denial might happen. Don;t sit on this, be proactive. Also, the background check is just a check. The school might have known this would be a problem, and probably should have done something, but they didn;t. Further, a felony not involving assault or dishonesty might be viewed better than a misdemeanor involving either. Also, if it was a drug offense, that might bar you from some hospitals as well.

I'm going the ADN route, but I have a BS and JD already, and I want to pay for the classes myself. If you are talking about 21k a semester and you mention aid, i have to ask, is this loans you refer to, or is this this grants and scholarships? because that is a lot of money. A lot of non-dis-chargeable debt that will take over your life and if you cannot find a job, it was a waste of that money. i don;t mean to be harsh, but I wish someone had said these things to me, four years ago. As for the soon BSNs will be required, i have read enough on this site to understand this is not going to happen anytime soon. I think one state passed a law saying that. Tons of ADNs left the state, and the law was repealed in 2003. If you can get your ADN first, you can work on your BSN later. But I can assure you, 21k a term is too high. if you have six terms, that's 126k for the education. If you are talking about loans, that is more than I took out for my law degree and there is no way that is justified for a Bachelor's. You will have a monthly loan payment on average of $1260.00, that is not including the interest. I'm sorry to be a buzzkill, but i see a lot of other young people making choices that they are going to be paying off for years, and those ones are the lucky ones. The unlucky ones have defaulted, and are getting charged huge interest fees and penalties. You cannot justify that kind of tuition for a four year degree.

85k with a scholarship could get you a law degree. The average debt for a student with a BS or BA is 25k. So that's ridiculously high. Also, is this one of those online schools? Because they have a huge default rate. It's about half. Which means their grads are not finding employment. Employers want someone who went to actual classes at a brick and mortar school. I have 100k in debt from my law degree, and I'm starting classes at a local cc for their RN program next spring. I will be on IBR for the next 20 years, but I have a job now that I can actually use to save my money for my classes. Bottom line, do not pay this much for a Bachelor's, and do not trust someone who comes to your workplace, and tells you about a school program. A good school lets you go to them. A bad one has to recruit people and soak them for as much money as they can.

I wore scrubs when I worked as a direct care worker because they were comfy. DCW is basically in home help, and I also PJS, short skirts and heels, basically, whatever I wanted. And if someone would have come up to me and said what you did, I would have laughed at you. Maybe not to your face, but it would have happened. You may be concerned about the health aspect, but it's so presumptuous to do something like this, not knowing the full situation. Those might have been his work out scrubs! That might be how he gets ladies at the gym to look at him, all macho and caring, and conjuring images of him taking the temperatures of sick kids and offering them Popsicles. And scrubs are designed to hide a variety of physical sins, most people look pretty hot in them, just saying.

I think at the end of the day, you can do anything you put your mind to. Don;t be afraid to have questions and experiment until you find the perfect study methods for yourself. When i was in law school, it took me three terms to find the best study methods, and that was how I able to pass the bar on my first round. You're going to do fine! And I know several nurses with tattoos, and I think you'll be fine, there as well. I knew a guy in law school who had tattoos all over his face, and no one said anything to him. Well, okay, he also looked like he could lift a tree up and beat you with it, and that may have had more to do with no one saying anything...

You can use the course eval like the other posters said. I'd like to point out that the first time whenIi was in college and I heard a professor drop an f bomb, I giggled like a schoolgirl. But after undergrad and law school and now working as a lawyer, I'll just share one thing with you. I don't usually swear in front of my clients in my current job as an advocate, but that's only because of the population I deal with. When I worked as criminal defense attorney, I had a mouth dirtier than a sailor. Did I use those word in front of a judge? No. But with other lawyers, and my clients, I did, and they did. It's one of those things you're going to have to deal with. And if you confront someone in front of others, which I think you did, you're going to get told to eff off. Develop a thicker skin. You're going into a profession that deals with people when they feel their worst. Life is not high tea with Queen