What other careers did you consider before choosing nursing

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What other careers did you consider and why did you go for nursing? Did you think you would be happier in another profession, but ended up liking nursing?

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Back in the early 90s, I wanted to be a travel agent ...but they are close to obsolete at this point. I also wanted to be (and informally was) a veterinary technician, but that's typically not a good-paying job.

I am happy as a nurse- mostly because I'm better off financially than I ever have been. Conditions are not always super-ideal, but they're tolerable as long as I have money to count when I go home.

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Specializes in PACU.

I was in school as an art major before I switched and went into nursing. I wanted to be a photo journalist.

Then came an unexpected present in the form of a child, You can't take a baby around the world... so I looked up something I could do rather quickly to make a living, I went to vocational school to become an LPN.

It took a while to find the niche and what I loved about nursing, but most days I'm happy that this is where I landed.

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