What's it like having a flexible work schedule?

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What's it like being able to work whenever you want? I cannot wait to be a nurse. Working three days a week sounds like heaven. Although, knowing me, I'd most likely do tons of over time anyway lol. What do you like to do on your off days?

It is not all about reading your textbooks. I've worked with very bright people, top students in their class who can't translate that to working at the bedside. They were actually unsuccessful, they could not put it all together. Sometimes the nursing students who have the best test scores do not make the best nurses.

I'd say most of us responding do enjoy being a nurse. We don't want to give up nursing because we have to deal with body fluids. But stepping in body fluids is not glamorous. We just want you to have a realistic picture of nursing. Read the many posts of students and new grads that want to throw in the towel a short time after entering the field. Is this possible because they did not have a realistic expectation of what nursing involves?

We hope nursing is everything you expect it to be. Keep us posted.

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Special Snowflake Syndrome at it's finest, everyone.

Why are you still coming at me? Didn't i say sorry and make it up with you. What's your problem lmao? So me deciding to keep my head up and keep a positive attitude is SSS? If it is, then i can honestly care less lmao. Better to be happy than miserable in life. In no way, was i ever coming at you. The only thing i did was ask why you people continue to nag and nag and nag some more about nursing and yet you still do it. It didn't make any sense to me. But now i understand, so chill with this stuff. Or are you just naturally grumpy or something? LOL

You honestly have no idea who i am, so it makes no sense to diagnose me with something like SSS. What kind of nurse are you exactly?

And in no way was i thinking i'm better than anyone else. I was simply saying, what was hard for some may not be hard for others.

You know what doesn't make sense to me? When people accuse others of being trolls and yet they seem like trolls themselves. Hypocrites.

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To be taken serious, please stop using "Lmao" and "LOL" internet/texting slang that seems common in most of your posts..

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Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
Why are you still coming at me? Didn't i say sorry and make it up with you. What's your problem lmao? So me deciding to keep my head up and keep a positive attitude is SSS? If it is, then i can honestly care less lmao. Better to be happy than miserable in life. In no way, was i ever coming at you. The only thing i did was ask why you people continue to nag and nag and nag some more about nursing and yet you still do it. It didn't make any sense to me. But now i understand, so chill with this stuff. Or are you just naturally grumpy or something? LOL

You honestly have no idea who i am, so it makes no sense to diagnose me with something like SSS. What kind of nurse are you exactly?

And in no way was i thinking i'm better than anyone else. I was simply saying, what was hard for some may not be hard for others.

You know what doesn't make sense to me? When people accuse others of being trolls and yet they seem like trolls themselves. Hypocrites.

Dude, you came at me (and all of us) with your assumptions about what it means to be a nurse. Also, no, you never apologized and I could care less if you did. And you don't read very well, either, since I mentioned I'm still a student but I'm a hardworking student (also working full time as a nursing assistant among several other thing so I can be sure I have a job before I graduate) and I know exactly what it takes to get through nursing school and I know exactly what it does to you as a person (if you are a human being, this is hard stuff regardless of how positive you proclaim your attitude to be). You wanted advice but you persist in only wanting to hear about the benefits of nursing and rejecting any sense of reality and what it's like working on the floor as me (and several others) being negative and miserable in my career choice.

But, as you mentioned your social hardships or something or other as being the reason for being home schooled, it's very clear you need attention, hence me saying you're trolling.

However, I am not going to sit here and take this nonsense either. It's so irrefutably careless to saying things like, "nursing is glamorous" and, "working a flexible schedule is heaven."

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The only thing this site lacks is a block button. It's crazy to think that there's nearly a million users signed up on this site, but only a few thousand use it. I wonder why. All the negative people must've gotten to them *****

There is a block option. You can block anyone here on AN. Why would you do that? A million nurses offering advice... that you can take .. or not. The advice is not negative.. it is advice ... period.

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At one point I was working some days individually-one day off between-sucked soooo bad. Also, on night shift your losing an extra day to adjust unless you just stay up every night and never do anything during the day.:spit: The only three day in a row shifts I ever had available to me were if I was willing to work every weekend, which I was not! (have kids in school all week) I prefer to work as a school nurse now because I may have to work five days a week, but not 16 hour days(which is what 12 hours can turn into) or every holiday. Also, as a mom, I've never had an "off" day.:dead:

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At one point I was working some days individually-one day off between-sucked soooo bad. Also, on night shift your losing an extra day to adjust unless you just stay up every night and never do anything during the day.:spit: The only three day in a row shifts I ever had available to me were if I was willing to work every weekend, which I was not! (have kids in school all week) I prefer to work as a school nurse now because I may have to work five days a week, but not 16 hour days(which is what 12 hours can turn into) or every holiday. Also, as a mom, I've never had an "off" day.:dead:

Thank you for your reply!

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There is a block option. You can block anyone here on AN. Why would you do that? A million nurses offering advice... that you can take .. or not. The advice is not negative.. it is advice ... period.

I have no problem taking advice, as i have said before. What i do however have a problem with is, la_chica coming at me with her crap. She continues to put words in my mouth, insult me, and i've heard nothing but negative from her. So i'm choosing not to reply to her anymore. I'll take someone else's negative advice who isn't insulting me.

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LOL i honestly do NOT understand why people assume someone is trolling once they are confronted with the truth and cold hard facts. Like honestly WHY ARE YOU DOING NURSING if it is soooo horrible! Aren't you just wasting your life? Save yourself the pain and misery and fine something you actually enjoy and have no problem what so ever with doing. I have my own reasons for wanting to be a nurse as does everyone else, some i have already explained. Someone needs to pay the bills? okay and? they resort to doing 4 years of schooling, hard exams, among other things, in order to pay the bills? LOL really? Why are all of you people focusing on all the negatives of nursing. You continue to do it and yet it still does not phase me. You should have done your research like me and knew what you were getting into before getting into it. Why does everything have to be about money to you guys? I already said i do not want to go into nursing for money. If i wanted money i would do something completely different. If i wanted money, i would still be wanting to go to school for becoming a neurosurgeon or starting my own business. If you do not like dealing with bodily fluids, then why in the world did you become a nurse? You should have known it came with the package of dealing with sick people. Like come on now man. Even i, a 16 year old already knows this. Thank god i'm not going to be oblivious to everything when i go into nursing. I can handle yelling, i have handled yelling for 16 years. Over time, i have learned to become stronger mentally. I'm not going to let someone yelling, dictate my career, bring me down, or keep me from doing what i believe i will be good at. There is yelling in every profession, and it certainly will not bother me because i am not weak minded. Yelling is a part of life. We need more nurses like me. No wonder hospitals need more nurses all around the country. People go into a profession thinking it'll be easy, completely oblivious to what their getting themselves into. It fascinates me how someone can do a job that entails dealing with sick people and helping them to feel better, yet their afraid of getting a little bodily fluid on them.

Listen. I am not trolling. I am simply wondering why people are giving nursing such a bad wrap yet they continue to spend years, decades even doing it. Like i said. I'd rather be doing a job i love, then a job i hate. All that negativity simply cannot be healthy for you.

l am sure there are plenty of other nurses who would like to beg to differ, i'm sure they love their job. Stuff that bothers someone else, such as bodily fluids or yelling, doesn't bother them because their main priority is helping people feel better.

You may not be trolling, but you certainly are clueless. Maybe you'll get it after a few years on the job.

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I have no problem taking advice, as i have said before. What i do however have a problem with is, la_chica coming at me with her crap. She continues to put words in my mouth, insult me, and i've heard nothing but negative from her. So i'm choosing not to reply to her anymore. I'll take someone else's negative advice who isn't insulting me.

Take deep breaths and rethink this. We are not coming at you with "crap". AN wants you to succeed in nursing.. we really do.

Please listen to us.

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you may not be trolling, but you certainly are clueless. Maybe you'll get it after a few years on the job.

why in the world do you think i am trying to learn.

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Specializes in SICU, trauma, neuro.

OP, I can't speak for everyone, so take these $0.02 for what they're worth. Many a starry eyed nursing student has been blindsided by the realities of working in the trenches that are bedside nursing. You meanwhile come making some statements about nursing gleaned from internet searches which are not universally true (e.g. we can work whenever we want to). I don't see those who dispute these claims as being negative or talking you out of nursing...rather providing you with the factual information you deserve.

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