What is your dream job?

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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.

What about everyone else?

Specializes in Emergency, LTC.

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

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Specializes in retired LTC.

I wonder what the credentials are for Vanna White's job, other than being tall, slender and blonde.

I actually thought of this question the other night as I was flipping channels after Jeopardy.

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Specializes in ICU; Telephone Triage Nurse.

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.

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A Powerball winner. If that's considered an actual job.

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Specializes in PACU, Stepdown, Trauma.

In nursing? I'm a new RN and really like the step-down ICU floor I'm working on right now.

Eventually: Family practice NP!

Non-nursing: travel writer

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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.

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Specializes in retired LTC.

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.

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How does one get paid to sit in a boat with a fishing pole?

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I'm going to hit the lottery and share. Also, open a foundation for wounded warriors and that will be my job.

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They just don't cut fabric.

My sister actually had that job at a JoAnn's while in high school/college. She enjoyed it.

I know I would enjoy it. :D 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.

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I'd like to test out mattresses for quality assurance.

"Don't bother me at work."

*goes back to sleep*

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