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working in before getting into nursing school? I'm turning 24 years old this month and I just applied to all the nursing programs in several local community colleges and state university. I've been doing so many odd jobs/temp jobs for the past 3 years in clerical and light industrial type jobs. Right now, I am unemployed and I hope I find a job just to get by. The only thing I have right now is volunteer work at the local hospital... which would be my only healthcare experience.
before i went to nursing school when i was also 24 years old, i was working as a bookkeeper. i was very good at math and originally started out studying accounting thinking i would become an accountant. i knew after my second year of accounting classes that i was not going to like that profession. i disliked working in an office so much. i hated the backbiting and gossip. nursing was something i had often thought about but never seriously thought about as a career. at the time the opportunity to go to nursing school in california just opened up to me and off i went.
locolorenzo22, BSN, RN
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I worked as a direct care aide at a DD group home, a water collector door-to-door for a water purification company, a activity director (3.5 years), and a CNA...all ok jobs, but I like this one way better most days.