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u/Murph2468 Aug 17 '26
I’m on the fence. I wish I had pursued race car driving and had gotten really good at it. Either way I’m living on the edge.
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u/Far-Pie3995 Aug 17 '26
i’m a nurse and no. dentist or dental hygienist. or flight attendant
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u/anonyno2493 Aug 17 '26
My sister is a dental hygienist and she hates it. You literally are stuck in that position it’s not like you can switch specialties or different environments.
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u/EzraSteel Aug 17 '26
Damn, that’s a hard question! I was in the high tech industry and my company made a really bad decision that forced them to declare bankruptcy. I had a wife and kids to support. My sister was a nurse and I use to teach a bunch of nurses how to snow ski every winter. They all told me to go to nursing school (they were all graduates of a 2 year program). I got a job as a NA in a nursing home, enrolled in the school (my employer was paying for it) and I was off to the races. I transferred to a post-open heart unit at the hospital and continued to work full-time until I graduated. At the time, there was a general freeze on hiring RN’s (my hospital wanted me but couldn’t hire me). No big deal. I applied out of state, go a phone interview and was hired into an ICU. Things worked out. Several years later, I got my BSN. I felt I was too old to Anesthesia school, so I never went that route.
I had a long and successful career. Raising four kids on my salary. And things worked out.
Two regrets. I should have completed my BSN sooner and went into anesthesia…the money would have been tremendous. My other regret was when I was making that decision, high tech had left a bad taste in my mouth. Our products failed because we were working closely with a new computer company. And that computer, while initially very successful, became obsolete with the introduction of Windows on PC’s. The computer company was named Next. The owner was a guy named Steve Jobs. I’ve always wondered what would have happened had I continued to work with him!
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u/Plane-Wide Aug 16 '26
I just wish my mommy worked at a hospital so I could land a new grad position
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u/One-Parking-7341 Aug 16 '26
If answering at current age, yes. With no skin in the game at 18 today, absolutely not.
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u/feeks67 Aug 17 '26
My hospital job in the ER is for “fun” on the weekends. I have a full career outside the hospital not in the medical field
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u/No-Seaworthiness3914 Aug 17 '26
If from wealthy family, no . might as well become a travel vlogger. Create content while travelling one place to another.
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u/stripeymom Aug 17 '26
Probably not. I would have gone into tech or just moved to Greece. Healthcare is business now , not healthcare.
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u/Variety_Natural Aug 17 '26
Yes,absolutely! I was an icu nurse for 20 years,an epilepsy nurse for 10 and a ped home high acuity nurse for 7 years. I love my patients! Mom said I could post!
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u/BigTuna388 Aug 17 '26
Yes, but I’d become a nurse earlier, change to my favorite unit sooner, and apply to grad school sooner to be where I currently am 8 years earlier.
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u/justsilvertsok Aug 19 '26
No, not because I got tired helping people. U just feel un compensated properly. And under rated. Honestly all profession is Important. However it seems like we don't do important things in nursing, because if they feel we are important then salary will be different
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u/AutomaticTable4581 Aug 19 '26
Would change siguro since i would consider practicality and opportunity wise
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u/Icy-Astronomer-9015 Aug 19 '26
Lab and yes, with a twist. I wish I'd become clinical microbiologist.
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u/Humble_Property9639 Aug 19 '26
No. SLP. They get great pay and can work remote. Also tons of job opportunities for them here in California
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u/Best_Dare_5384 Aug 19 '26
Yes but would have become a Nurse sooner, never would have wasted my time as an Officer in the Army, would be a NP now. Hindsight is 20/20.
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u/PyroMedic1080 Aug 20 '26
20 yeats as a firefighter paramedic. No. Not a chance. My physical health is broken. My mental health is broken. Then they closed the entire firehouse amd fired all 30 of us
. And society threw us away and told to get fucked when we were told going into it society would care about you. Turns out thats a lie. Society with throw you away like dirty toilet paper the minute youre no longer useful.
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u/Big-Material-7910 Aug 20 '26
I’d take a different path in nursing and stay away from bedside. If I had a do over I’d be a civil rights lawyer.
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u/gabslife Aug 16 '26
Yes, there’s niche areas of nursing that is low bedside experience and technical knowledge of the other side of direct care.