Let me start by saying I LOVE my current gig. The hours are perfect, I work with great staff, I have a 15 minutes commute...
BUT, if I were to describe a job where I could be doing anything, I would love to be working out in the community doing home visits for moms with newborns. When I worked as a Nurse Practitioner, I specialized in newborns and all the new babies would come to me for their first pediatrician visit after being discharged from the hospital. I loved all of the teaching, reassuring the worried parents, catching issues before they became a problem, and of course, getting to snuggle with all those sweet babies.
Ideally I would love to find a program where I could use my Spanish and visit at-risk families with new babies. I haven't been able to find anything like this in my community. Like I said, I love what I am doing right now, but I would consider a change if something as I described was an option.
When I was in nursing school I wanted normal newborn nursery when I graduated, but never got the opportunity. What I got was ICU, and plenty of it.
Pre-nursing school I wanted to be an orthodontist ... But we had no dental school in AZ back then.
Now? Swimming with the dolphins ... digging up artifacts of a lost civilization such as Uruk (an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia) ... Unearthing dinosaur bones from the La Brea Tar Pits ... Or an archivist in the mummy section at the Smithsonian Institute. Take your pick - any of these would please me greatly, enough to never want to retire.
My dream job would start with having ONE job, and not doing geriatric care full time and school nursing when I get the chance. Mix that one job with being a school nurse, that would be my ultimate dream job. Or maybe one day working at public health, but school nursing is where my head is centered at right now.
Edit to include non-nursing dream job-I tell my husband all the time that I just want to be the fabric cutter at JoAnn's, and he just rolls his eyes at me all the time.
Edit to include non-nursing dream job-I tell my husband all the time that I just want to be the fabric cutter at JoAnn's, and he just rolls his eyes at me all the time.
They just don't cut fabric.
My sister actually had that job at a JoAnn's while in high school/college. She enjoyed it.
My sister actually had that job at a JoAnn's while in high school/college. She enjoyed it.
I know I would enjoy it. But my husband is dead set against my having a job where my income would just go straight back to my employer. I don't understand this.
But my husband is dead set against my having a job where my income would just go straight back to my employer. I don't understand this.
PocketSize, BSN, RN
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ER was my dream job in nursing school. I started in ER as a new grad but now Flight Nursing would send me happy to my grave
Non-nursing: working with animals. Vet tech, sanctuary caretaker, anything animal-related