- Hi. Welcome to my second home page. Don't ask about the first. It's not worth the breath. I thought I write about being a nurse. I'll undoubtedly get too wordy. Ah well. Nursing isn't my first career. Nor even my second. I quit work as a computer lady to go to school to learn to be a nurse. I'm not one of those people who Always wanted to be a nurse. As a matter of fact, I'd have been a doctor about 20 years now, if a certain person had stood up to his end of a bargain (G). Actually, I was studying pre-medicine when I discovered that I was more interested in people than in disease. I knew I needed a job where I could get up and run around and talk to people. I've always been interested in science and in medicine, and so this seemed like the logical step to take. I'm not sure that I'd advise people now to go into nursing. I know that I wouldn't advise Against it, but I don't think that I'd urge someone of whom I was fond to try it. It's a very expensive field of study. For some reason, nursing classes cost as much as graduate school classes. For another thing, the responsibility is truly staggering, and the financial rewards are staggerinly small. That being said, of course, someone who wants to be a nurse, often Needs to be a nurse. I couldn't and wouldn't say a word to discourage that person! Here's another interesting thing about nursing. It's something that you become and that becomes you. I know nurses who are retired, but I don't know any Former nurses. There's a distinction there. You are shaped by the experiences you have, and the experiences in nursing are so intense that you are changed by them. I work in the neurosurgery/neurosciences department of a big hospital. It's a very interesting place to work. The biggest drawback of working in this area is that I am no longer able to say to my co-workers "Don't take it so seriously. This isn't brain surgery here." I think we need some more flowers here. Hi. Welcome to my second home page. Don't ask about the first. It's not worth the breath. I thought I write about being a nurse. I'll undoubtedly get too wordy. Ah well. Nursing isn't my first career. Nor even my second. I quit work as a computer lady to go to school to learn to be a nurse. I'm not one of those people who Always wanted to be a nurse. As a matter of fact, I'd have been a doctor about 20 years now, if a certain person had stood up to his end of a bargain (G). Actually, I was studying pre-medicine when I discovered that I was more interested in people than in disease. I knew I needed a job where I could get up and run around and talk to people. I've always been interested in science and in medicine, and so this seemed like the logical step to take. I'm not sure that I'd advise people now to go into nursing. I know that I wouldn't advise Against it, but I don't think that I'd urge someone of whom I was fond to try it. It's a very expensive field of study. For some reason, nursing classes cost as much as graduate school classes. For another thing, the responsibility is truly staggering, and the financial rewards are staggerinly small. That being said, of course, someone who wants to be a nurse, often Needs to be a nurse. I couldn't and wouldn't say a word to discourage that person! Here's another interesting thing about nursing. It's something that you become and that becomes you. I know nurses who are retired, but I don't know any Former nurses. There's a distinction there. You are shaped by the experiences you have, and the experiences in nursing are so intense that you are changed by them. I work in the neurosurgery/neurosciences department of a big hospital. It's a very interesting place to work. The biggest drawback of working in this area is that I am no longer able to say to my co-workers "Don't take it so seriously. This isn't brain surgery here." I think we need some more flowers here. Hi. Welcome to my second home page. Don't ask about the first. It's not worth the breath. I thought I write about being a nurse. I'll undoubtedly get too wordy. Ah well. Nursing isn't my first career. Nor even my second. I quit work as a computer lady to go to school to learn to be a nurse. I'm not one of those people who Always wanted to be a nurse. As a matter of fact, I'd have been a doctor about 20 years now, if a certain person had stood up to his end of a bargain (G). Actually, I was studying pre-medicine when I discovered that I was more interested in people than in disease. I knew I needed a job where I could get up and run around and talk to people. I've always been interested in science and in medicine, and so this seemed like the logical step to take. I'm not sure that I'd advise people now to go into nursing. I know that I wouldn't advise Against it, but I don't think that I'd urge someone of whom I was fond to try it. It's a very expensive field of study. For some reason, nursing classes cost as much as graduate school classes. For another thing, the responsibility is truly staggering, and the financial rewards are staggerinly small. That being said, of course, someone who wants to be a nurse, often Needs to be a nurse. I couldn't and wouldn't say a word to discourage that person! Here's another interesting thing about nursing. It's something that you become and that becomes you. I know nurses who are retired, but I don't know any Former nurses. There's a distinction there. You are shaped by the experiences you have, and the experiences in nursing are so intense that you are changed by them. I work in the neurosurgery/neurosciences department of a big hospital. It's a very interesting place to work. The biggest drawback of working in this area is that I am no longer able to say to my co-workers "Don't take it so seriously. This isn't brain surgery here." I think we need some more flowers here.Hi. Welcome to my second home page. Don't ask about the first. It's not worth the breath. I thought I'd write about being a nurse. I'll undoubtedly get too wordy. Ah well. Nursing isn't my first career. Nor even my second. I quit work as a computer lady to go to school to learn to be a nurse. I'm not one of those people who Always wanted to be a nurse. As a matter of fact, I'd have been a doctor about 20 years now, if a certain person had stood up to his end of a bargain (G). Actually, I was studying pre-medicine when I discovered that I was more interested in people than in disease. I knew I needed a job where I could get up and run around and talk to people. I've always been interested in science and in medicine, and so this seemed like the logical step to take. I'm not sure that I'd advise people now to go into nursing. I know that I wouldn't advise Against it, but I don't think that I'd urge someone of whom I was fond to try it. It's a very expensive field of study. For some reason, nursing classes cost as much as graduate school classes. For another thing, the responsibility is truly staggering, and the financial rewards are staggerinly small. That being said, of course, someone who wants to be a nurse, often Needs to be a nurse. I couldn't and wouldn't say a word to discourage that person! Here's another interesting thing about nursing. It's something that you become and that becomes you. I know nurses who are retired, but I don't know any Former nurses. There's a distinction there. You are shaped by the experiences you have, and the experiences in nursing are so intense that you are changed by them. I work in the neurosurgery/neurosciences department of a big hospital. It's a very interesting place to work. The biggest drawback of working in this area is that I am no longer able to say to my co-workers "Don't take it so seriously. This isn't brain surgery here." I think we need some more flowers here.