i have just been rejected from uic, and i'm just feeling lost. i've been working towards and wanting to be a cnm for six years. due to some financial problems, i was unable to complete my college education until 2006- a ba in women's studies i had started ten years previously.
i still knew i wanted to be a cnm, but at the time i had to work full time and could only attend weekend college. at that point there were no options for weekend school to do a nursing degree- and i was stuck in the city i live in because my husband was in grad school- he just graduated this week.
fast forward two years- i'm in an adn program and am projected to graduate in december 2009. i applied to the uic gep program for january 2009, made it to the interview stage and was rejected. most other schools i have looked at want you to have worked at least a year in your area if possible, but i heard that positions for new nursing grads in labor and delivery are almost impossible to find. i'm also interested in frontier, but i've heard that's hard to get into also.
i have a kick ass gpa, awesome recommendations from proffs, and i have an excellent work ethic so once i can finally start working as an rn, i feel confident that i will be able to get good professional recommendations too. i plan on becoming doula certified with dona in the next two years to beef up my experience and applications, but when i think about the hurdles between now and then, the odds of getting a spot in labor and delivery, frontier being hard to get into, i just feel like i'm never gonna get there!!!! im 30 years old, and husband and i would like to have kids of our own with the next two years or so, so the time where we can just pick up and move to any city for grad programs for each other is pretty much gone. *sigh* i know i'm coming off as whiny, and thanks to anyone who read all of this....any words of advice/encouragement friom those of you lucky enough to be cnms?
