what's new?
So I've been doing well lately.
So far I can afford my life-style (which is always a good thing!)
I've been doing a lot of thinking about what I want to be doing with my life.
I don't want to do theatre. Maybe the occasional community theatre musical, but otherwise I'm not terribly motivated.
I had been thinking about Interior Design (but after I moved I realized I don't really want to study it and have to know things like how many square feet of wall paper someone needs...) I just want to go into spaces and tell them how I think they should design it. I don't really care to know any of the technical aspects... heh.
So then I'm watching Grey's Anatomy and I'm thinking - I SO want to be a surgeon!
And then reality slaps me in the face and tells me that Grey's Anatomy is a romanticized idea and there aren't going to be Dr.McDreamy's all over the place, and it's REALLY hard work. Not that I couldn't do it if I wanted to do it... but it just seems like an overwhelming thing - no social life, working 48 hour shifts.... or longer.... and well not to mention the whole cutting people open thing (looks cool on TV, might not be so cool in real life...)
So my Grandma says I should be a paramedic... but that's not really appealing to me either...
Then I took my cousin to the Hospital, and the nurse comes in and is being really nice and pretty cool - and I've been in the hospital with other family members when I've really appreciated the nurses, etc. And I started thinking about it, about being a nurse.
I did some research on how to get certified and decided if I were to do it I'd go through the program at Washtenaw.
Then I started thinking - okay if I'm going to do this I'm not going to be able to work as much, so I have to pay my car off first. But there's a wait-list. So get on the wait-list now, pay the car off, start Gen. Eds in the fall of next year, hopefully get accepted the next year, and start the program. Apply for enough scholarships to have my way paid. Get my Bachelors, get hired into a hospital, have the hospital pay for me to get my Masters (they do that).
I mean... it's something big. It's a big deal. I'd have the potential to be saving lives. I'd be making a difference - compared to now. And, I think it would be great. Really I do.
I mean, how crazy right? Me. A nurse.
I'm still thinking about it, I don't want to jump in and realize it's not what I want to do. So yeah. That's what's new with me.
So far I can afford my life-style (which is always a good thing!)
I've been doing a lot of thinking about what I want to be doing with my life.
I don't want to do theatre. Maybe the occasional community theatre musical, but otherwise I'm not terribly motivated.
I had been thinking about Interior Design (but after I moved I realized I don't really want to study it and have to know things like how many square feet of wall paper someone needs...) I just want to go into spaces and tell them how I think they should design it. I don't really care to know any of the technical aspects... heh.
So then I'm watching Grey's Anatomy and I'm thinking - I SO want to be a surgeon!
And then reality slaps me in the face and tells me that Grey's Anatomy is a romanticized idea and there aren't going to be Dr.McDreamy's all over the place, and it's REALLY hard work. Not that I couldn't do it if I wanted to do it... but it just seems like an overwhelming thing - no social life, working 48 hour shifts.... or longer.... and well not to mention the whole cutting people open thing (looks cool on TV, might not be so cool in real life...)
So my Grandma says I should be a paramedic... but that's not really appealing to me either...
Then I took my cousin to the Hospital, and the nurse comes in and is being really nice and pretty cool - and I've been in the hospital with other family members when I've really appreciated the nurses, etc. And I started thinking about it, about being a nurse.
I did some research on how to get certified and decided if I were to do it I'd go through the program at Washtenaw.
Then I started thinking - okay if I'm going to do this I'm not going to be able to work as much, so I have to pay my car off first. But there's a wait-list. So get on the wait-list now, pay the car off, start Gen. Eds in the fall of next year, hopefully get accepted the next year, and start the program. Apply for enough scholarships to have my way paid. Get my Bachelors, get hired into a hospital, have the hospital pay for me to get my Masters (they do that).
I mean... it's something big. It's a big deal. I'd have the potential to be saving lives. I'd be making a difference - compared to now. And, I think it would be great. Really I do.
I mean, how crazy right? Me. A nurse.
I'm still thinking about it, I don't want to jump in and realize it's not what I want to do. So yeah. That's what's new with me.