Trapped in this office job and waiting for nursing school...

RedhairedNurse, BSN, RN · May 6, 2008

Please try to enjoy your three months, believeeee me. I just got out of nursing school and it was a very hard program to get through. I know your excited to start, but you will start eating sleeping and breathing nursing school soon enough. Just enjoy being able to go home without having your face in the books 24/7.....seriously! Oh and why not say anything....share your excitement!

Mandi2010RN · May 6, 2008

That is my exact situation! It sounds like I wrote that myself!

I am still waiting to see if I am accepted into the program though. I won't find out until the first week in June and the program starts in August. I am soooo excited:)

MrsIndependent · May 6, 2008

I completely understand. I'm accepted to NS and will begin in January 2009. Gosh, that is a long, long, long 7 months away :eek: . I'm going crazy. I leave work and go home to watch the Discovery Health Channel and daydream about working as a nurse. I dread coming to work now. I just want to put on my uniform and get to work.

Kunzieo · May 6, 2008

Ug. Am I ever there with you!

I just got my rejection letter (2nd year in a row)

My school has a "freshman guarantee" so the students who started as freshman are given priority, and any spots left over are given to transfer students (me).

So, after scrambling around for a few weeks, I am going to start LPN school in the fall. Not what I wanted, but it's a start. Then I will do the LPN to RN classes at the community college, and then come back here to the college and finish up the RN-BSN. I have all the liberal arts credits done, so that won't be hard.

I'll get there, even if I have to go in circles!

But, yep. In the mean time....

more waiting in a job I don't like, more time waiting to buy a house, more time spent waiting to start a family.

Sigh.

Maybe I should just have a baby now anyways. I don't want to start when I'm in my 30s (Not that that's super old or anything, I just always saw myself as more of a young mom)

Yep. Sick of waiting.

Reno1978, BSN, RN · May 6, 2008

I was in your exact situation until the fall of 2005, when i finally quit to finish up my prereqs and start nursing school the following fall. Just go through the motions! 3 months is right around the corner...

ChristyMNOP · May 6, 2008

Enjoy it... I sometimes kind of miss office work now. :confused: been a nurse for 8 months. I miss set schedules every week, lunch breaks most days, sitting down most of the day, nobody dies if you make a mistake, getting busy at work consists of arranging your work station and drinking your morning coffee whereas now its running around trying to pick up the pieces from the last shift, there's little to no poop involved, if you get an email from work its usually a funny joke instead of "need to see you regarding xyz mistake"....

Could go on and on. I love nursing still though, I'm just trying to give you some perspective here. HTH

cherubhipster · May 6, 2008

Please try to enjoy your three months, believeeee me. I just got out of nursing school and it was a very hard program to get through. I know your excited to start, but you will start eating sleeping and breathing nursing school soon enough. Just enjoy being able to go home without having your face in the books 24/7.....seriously! Oh and why not say anything....share your excitement!

I can't share the news because I need to keep this job. If I tell them I am leaving to soon, they might just kick me out of the door now. eek! It's like I've got a big secret and I'm not allowed to tell.

I jsut have to get my kicks out through my friends I guess, heh heh.

cherubhipster · May 6, 2008

Enjoy it... I sometimes kind of miss office work now. been a nurse for 8 months. I miss set schedules every week, lunch breaks most days, sitting down most of the day, nobody dies if you make a mistake, getting busy at work consists of arranging your work station and drinking your morning coffee whereas now its running around trying to pick up the pieces from the last shift, there's little to no poop involved, if you get an email from work its usually a funny joke instead of "need to see you regarding xyz mistake"....
Could go on and on. I love nursing still though, I'm just trying to give you some perspective here. HTH

Heh, thanks! I can understand what you mean. Since I graduated college, I worked in an office, then as a teacher in a special ed school, and now in an office again. While I was a teacher I felt very nostalgic about office work for some of the same reasons you mentioned!! No "holding" crazy children while they try to kick you in the face, don't have to spend the day on your feet running around, you can zone out and it doesn't even make a difference..just come into work and do my thing and go home..and get paid for it well!! That was part of the reason I ended up back where I am..but boy oh boy. I guess it took me two times to really understand that an office job is NOT for me. I like the running around, I like the movement and activity. I like being challenged!

I have read a lot of "the grass is always greener" posts on this forum. Some are from nurses venting how they wish they could be in an office and gripping about all the troubles they run into, but some are from office people who have the same sort of problems on the other side!! Every job has it's woes, I believe.

I DO agree with you about the part where, at least if I make a mistake here, nobody dies!! I have to admit I am a little nervous about that pressure, but I am not nervous enough not to go through with this!

futureRN09 · May 6, 2008

I understand you, I'm in the same situation. I start nursing school this fall and I can't wait, however I do plan to enjoy my summer to the fullest because once September comes I won't have a life. So I advise you the same. I know you are eager to start as am I, but please enjoy your summer read books, take a vacation, relax and hang out because if will be tough to do any of the above once school starts.

I also cannot tell my office job boss I start because I still need the job and dont want to get kicked out. It's funny when I first read your post I thought I had written it. LOL..

ChristyMNOP · May 6, 2008

Yeah, I second reading books. That's one thing that I got out of and I'm still not back into yet! Books for pleasure. You won't get the chance again for a while. Again, I still love nursing, just trying to help you spend this precious downtime vicariously :wink2:

FutureNrsJaren · May 6, 2008

I was accepted to nursing school and I am ridiculously excited to get moving. They just can't process my paperwork fast enough, and as much as I love summer, I want it to be coming and going already!
In the meantime I have THREE MORE MONTHS of cubicle labor to get through here. It is torture. And nobody in the office knows I am leaving yet, so I can't say anything!!
How do I survive the tedium?? I can only daydream about my new career ten thousand times without becoming completely restless!
Is anybody else in a similar situation? Let's comiserate!

I am in the same situation. I have mailed off my applications and I am waiting for the response. I have sent out a couple of applications so come this fall I will be in somebody's nursing program. I wish the summer would hurry up already. I just want to get started I want to learn everything I possibly can. Good Luck.

JLD

I work in an office. But I do get to go out side sometimes... I am a soil conservationist for the US Dept of Agriculture.