barnacle1985

I currently go to school in Southern CA, where at the moment, it is typically a 2 year wait to get into the RN program, at local community colleges. I will be taking anatomy and math this next semester, as well as maintaining my p/t job as a server. I am 29 with no kids. The last classes I need to complete BEFORE applying to the RN program are: physiology, microbiolgy (which is said to be taken last), chem, cna program and nursing math. I was intending on taking the CNA course in the Fall semester of this year, and just trying to get my foot into the door as a NA at my local hospital. I've known people who have done this, and once done with the RN program, they are hired at at the hospital they were working as a CNA at. I guess my main question is, if technically, if things go as planned, I won't be in the actual RN program till 2017?, should I just do the CNA course for my very last class and just work it while waiting for the program? OR!!! Should I take it the Fall of this year, and continue to do school and get a job in the hospital field as a cna for the next 3 years or so? I don't want to burn myself out with the whole CNA thing, and some how get discouraged. I am open to all advice to people who have actually been in my shoes.