What was your job before you became a nurse?

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Before you became a nurse, what were you doing/what was your job then? Just curious!

Specializes in Hospice, LTC, Rehab, Home Health.

Here's my list:

library shelver -during High School

cashier at Jupiter's (discount div. of K-Mart) during HS

Office Cashier at Jupiter"s

Bank Teller / Savings Counselor

Records Clerk @ Nuclear Power Plant during construction and Testing

Office Cashier @ McCrory's

library shelver - during college for nursing

On Campus Tutor - during college

RN ( Nursing Home, Home Health, Now Hospice)

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Specializes in CNA.

not a nurse yet, waiting to take the cna test. but right now i'm wrapping my senior year and i work at a local clothing store.

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my list:

waitress

receptionist

caregiver

CNA

RN

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Pedi/ICU/Tele/Onc.

Waitress, lvn to RN!

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interesting to know.....anymore replies? :typing

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Specializes in 4 years of L&D and 6 years of Med-Surg.

[color=lime]sales associate at lerner new york, gap, then to medical assistant, then to lvn and finally rn and soon rn bsn......wooo-hooo! :yeah:

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flight attendant

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:yeah:nice questions (I am from Québec.. emigrated ,, actually I'm from Europe -Roumania) so ,... before I was dreamt to be a nurse (or more,..) but well I became just a chemist (organic chemistry) so I worked in this lab for 4-5 years and then moved to work with doctors at College of Physicians for a Palliative and EOL project (in Canada) so ... after this I was 100% determined to become an RN !! so this is it.. I love this ...:redpinkhe

Cheers

Audry

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Specializes in start in NICU 7/14/08.

Neat thread so thought I'd chime in on what I did...

vet tech / waitress (college jobs)

day care worker

inventory control for computer company (because working in daycare wasn't helping me save for grad school lol)

health insurance claims processor / customer service

child life assistant

psychometrist

nursing student / unit secretary

graduated college with a psychology degree...went to grad school and decided in grad school that instead of school psych i wanted to do child life...worked with a child life specialist for a year...was going to do the externship to get certified in child life but decided i was more interested in what the nurses did since they still dealt with the child and family AND got to do the fabulous medical stuff so here i am about to graduate from nursing school finally!! :)

fun thread...interesting to see all the responses

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Specializes in oncology,med/surg,psych..

I was a wood worker home kitchen cabinet maker, A U.S.Navy Hospital corpsman for 6 yrs. Combat field Medic with U.S.M.C. in Viet-Nam then used the G.I bill to get a B.S.N in nursing. It was a good degree move for me.:bowingpur

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Before you became a nurse, what were you doing/what was your job then? Just curious!

Let's see...I was a telephone operator, hairdresser, cosmetic salesperson, aerobic instructor, airline personnel, postal service/mail carrier before I went to nursing school

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I'm starting the Nursing Program in August. I'm currently working at Wal-Mart.

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