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hope you all are hanging in there.

Can't speak to the duties of the job, but congratulations!

FSUNurse2b - Just wanted to thank you for this thread and also for your PM - I can't answer PMs yet as I have not been around on allnurses long enough. But thanks for the encouragement and I wish you all the best.

Canesdukegirl - I wanted to thank you for your PM. I haven't participated here on the site enough to send a pm back, but I wanted to make sure you knew that I read your PM. Thank you, thank you.

Law. I speak from experience, not only my own but from that of someone who has interviewed many, many law students in my life. All of your complaints about nursing could apply equally to my field (well, except for being on our feet. We sit on our butts for 13 hours a day and get very wide very young :) ), but thank you all for your comments as every opinion is very valuable to me.

Totally understand - thank you all for your input and advice!

Sounds like nurses are about as happy as a group as lawyers. :)

Thanks all -- to be honest, it's somewhat a misconception that lawyers are treated with respect as well. In the field I'm in (entertainment), clients treat lawyers like their servants. So I'm used to it! And I've calculated my pay per hours worked, and it comes to about $40/hr, so although I will be making less, I will also be working fewer hours, which is actually another part of the reason for the change.

Hi all, I'm a 42-year-old lawyer who's seriously considering making a career change to the nursing field. (I've been an unhappy lawyer, in several different law positions, for 18 years now...). I am looking for a career that allow flexibility in scheduling and geographic location (although I am by necessity in the NYC area now as I have two aging parents) as well as an active, on-my-feet kind of job that involves significant person-to-person contact, and nursing seems to fit that bill. I'd still need to get my pre-reqs done (as all my science classes from college are too old to be considered, unfortunately) and then would go for an accelerated BSN degree. What I'm suddenly concerned about is an article I've read as well as posts I've read here which all state that there truly is no nursing shortage and jobs are very hard to come by, especially for new nurses. Can anyone give me any advice about that? Thanks so much