School and Nursing

I miss the Summer - no school, no worries. Now the Fall is here and I am taking three classes AND going to work full-time. It’s a tough job but I gotta do it if I want to advance career-wise. As some of you already know, I’m going to school to be a murse (male nurse). I already have a Spanish degree (yes, I speak Mexican!) and I need to take a few science prerequisites before I can get into Nursing School. Right now I’m taking Nutrition, Physiology, and Physiology Lab. Nutrition looks like it’s going to be very interesting and useful. Physiology looks like it’s going to be tough. The teacher is very intimidating but I’m going to get through it. After this semester I just have to take microbiology and then I will be in Nursing School! The only bad thing is that I won’t be able to work full-time while in Nursing School so I’m going to have to really apply for scholarships and loans (hopefully more scholarships!). I think after I graduate I will be a travel nurse so that I can live rent-free and save up money to pay back loans. I’ve always wanted to visit California so maybe I’ll go there.

I think I will be a good nurse. I love helping people and there is a great need for Spanish-speaking nurses across the nation. I have my doubts sometimes about being a nurse because I have such a great love for computers and the internet, so I sometimes wonder if I should follow that career path. But I know I would feel a huge void in my life if I wasn’t in a position of dealing with lots of people. I still have dreams of my old cashier job at least once a week. I’m so happy in my dream because I’m coming into contact with so many different people while ringing up their bananas and cigarettes. I just really love customer service jobs. Nursing takes that to an extra level when dealing with patients. I just hope I learn to love the medical aspect of it.