What career would YOU have chosen if you weren't a nurse?

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I'm very curious to see some of the answers here! If I wasn't able to do nursing, I would have done social work!

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

Photography, interior design, or writing, since I'm now too old to be a racecar driver. :(

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A creative writer of poetry and short prose.

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I actually would have become a speech pathologist; I was in my second semester in that Master's program when I decided to pursue nursing. This was back in 1982 and most SLP jobs were in schools but I wanted to work with adult stroke victims in that field. I heard there weren't many of those jobs so went to nursing instead. Well, I've had quite a taste of nursing now(21 yrs) and if I could financially do it, I'd return to speech pathology.

That was one of my reasons too! I did not want to work in a school, although I did want to work with children.

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I would have either went to school to be a veterinarian or obtained whatever degree would qualify me to open my own chain of daycares, like Kindercare and such.

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social work, librarian, interior designer, owner of my own business of any kind that doesn't have anything to do with sick people in sad circumstances; oh, and maybe a lawyer or a writer or a worker with flowers or a wedding planner/coordinator or a pianist or a million other things. Life is too short, isn't it?

LOL I always say - what's right today for a person isn't necessarily right for all time. People go through various phases, interests and abilities change. I guess where there's life, there's the possibility of change.

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i'd be a pharmacist. i love that aspect of health care, and my husband (who does community pharmacy) makes 60% more than i do.

i can't justify another 5 years of school, and having to move 8 hours away from here. and i still love nursing, so why change jobs?

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Specializes in Neuro ICU, Neuro/Trauma stepdown.

if i wasn't a nurse i would want to be a surgical tech. and if we are talking out of the hospital, i would want to be a biologist or a teacher or maybe a biology professor.

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Specializes in ER.

If I had not been a nurse might have worked at sea, or news photography.

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Specializes in OR/Surgery.

In college I applied for a spot in journalism but ended up enrolling in a nursing program but if i would have pursued journalism I would love to be a travel/food journalist imagine globe troting seeing the world and learning about other people's culture i think it's the coolest job ever but i have done the travelling bit through nursing...

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Specializes in jack of all trades.

I was a police officer prior to going to nursing school. Switched as my po husband felt it was "too dangerous". Nursing was my secondary choice actually. Looking back I wish I had stayed in the profession and do miss it. I put up with more BS as an RN than I did as an Officer.

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Specializes in LTC, Disease Management, smoking Cessati.
I'm very curious to see some of the answers here! If I wasn't able to do nursing, I would have done social work!

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Marine Biologist! :)

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Specializes in pure and simple psych.

Nun in an orphanage

Psychiatrist

Writer

Electrician

Portrait Photographer

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