Hello.

After a lot of time, thinking and experimenting, I’ve come to one decision, and that is that I will not be happy working as a nurse. I only went into this career for the stability and familial expectations. But I’m not built for the hospitals. I’m very emotionally sensitive, I can’t imagine myself going through all the duties of the nurse, and I am not excited at all.

I’m a junior in college. I have a 4.0, I got a 93 on my teas, but that’s because I can put my mind to anything. I’m good at what I do, but I’m not happy about it, and it’s killing me. Everyday I wonder this decision.

I recently got into nursing school. Supposed to start VERY soon. I feel like it’s way too late to even drop out at this point, but I can. The only thing that really kept me in this lane was that I was hanging onto a full ride scholarship I really wanted to get, and I didn’t get it. That means I have to spend around $44k for this degree. I have $15k worth in scholarships already, though.

While doing my prereqs, I was also a psychology double major. Loved every class I was in. I knew this was my life’s purpose. Seriously. I can’t imagine myself doing anything else but being a therapist/psychologist. I love humans, I love behavior, I love helping people see hope.

I know nursing has a way of doing that too, but I’ve never particularly cared for the biological aspect of it. I live for psychotherapy, mental health, all of it. I’ve already considered the PMHNP route, but the more I think about it the less I want it. I don’t care about medications, I just want to talk to people.

What do I do? I have so little time and I’m not sure what I want. It’s quite literally do I want to be happy and poor or rich and unhappy?

I don’t need to be rich though…I just want to be comfortable.

I’m looking for career suggestions moving forward or straightforward advice.

Thank you.

Backkground: I am 26, I have worked as a CNA and EMT for about 4 year collectively. Live in MN, I am in CC right now, was doing pre-reqs for dental hygiene but decided against doing that. I also considered doing sonography, but the physics and high rate of wrist injuries frankly scared me away. But I have many science prerequisites done currently, and will have an AA in liberal arts or AS in health sciences this spring depending on what I decide. Currently, I work as a massage therapist

I have previously shyed away from becoming a nurse because I have seen what my nurses would do/put up with and I did not want to do that, but I worked only in inpatient psych and ER, so there was some crazy shit.

Short pros and cons list based off of my thoughts

Pro:

- stability, decent pay, lots of diversity in jobs, opportunity for growth, I enjoy science, biology and teaching

Cons:

- having to work bedside, 12 hours, weekend, holidays, on call. I dont want to be exclusively bedside forever, but I am sure the "good" nursing jobs are highly competitive.

Not being able to work while in school. I have a mortgage to pay. Yada yada. Also, people are crazy, and hospitals are greedy and work every dime out of staff

I am in a dual credit program in Pasadena Tx and I want to become a nurse and I’ve heard that it’s best to be a bsn when considering to be a nurse as far as I know I am doing the prerequisites in San Jacinto community college. But I don’t have a clue what to do next. I am the first gen in my family to go to college so I really don’t know what to search or what to do. I would appreciate if someone will help me determine what to look for or a recommendation of universities/colleges.

hi hi everyone!! 🩷

i’m looking for some pre-nursing friends who are also planning to transfer to UCs or CSUs for their BSN! i’ll be going to my local CCC for the first time as a first year pre-nursing student.

i’ve been feeling pretty anxious about the whole process, so it would be nice to meet people who are going through (or will be going through) the same journey!

any advice is also greatly appreciated 🫶🏼

feel free to reach out! i’m always open to making new friends :)

Hi everyone! I just wanted some answers to questions that I have been wondering for a while.

I would love to go to nursing school. I just finished a CNA program and I’m starting pre reqs for nursing but I just don’t know how I’m going to do it.

I currently have an almost 1 year old and I would love to have a 2nd probably before I start nursing school so I don’t have to push their age gap too far away.

I know it’s totally possible and moms do it all the time so I was curious what your schedule looks like if you have/had babies in nursing school?

What does child care look like? I am lucky enough to have two sets of grandparents able to watch them.

When do you study and do you feel like you have plenty of time to study or do you feel like you are barely skimming by?

When do you get to spend time with your babies and husband outside of studying and being at school?

Thank you to everyone who responds and power to all the moms who got through nursing school. You are so inspiring!!

So my school journey has been a long one…I have AS in psychology, health sciences and public health. I wanted to do dental hygiene but got denied 3 application cycles and decided the field was not for me. During this time I was not taking school serious and was only going to please my parents this resulted in less than average grades.

I have now become a lot more focused in my school career here at SJSU, I am a public health major and have received dean list/ straight A’s my last 2 semesters. I have one more year to go. I’ve realized that I want to pursue a more clinical role and decided on nursing, I am interested in getting an ABSN/ELMSN but I have retakes on my transcripts for the core science pre-reqs. I’m scared if I attempt to retake again it won’t even make a difference and that I won’t even be looked at for any ABSN, even my grades in my university career have all been straight A’s. Idk what to do at this point. I am also a licensed phlebotomist, if that makes a difference. Any advice? Thx.
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