Comments on: A New Professional Goal: Nursing http://www.dmperez.com/2009/07/12/a-new-professional-goal-nursing/ DMPerez.com - The Domain of Daniel M.Perez Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:23:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daniel M. Perez http://www.dmperez.com/2009/07/12/a-new-professional-goal-nursing/comment-page-1/#comment-3714 Daniel M. Perez Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:27:17 +0000 http://dmperez.com/?p=1406#comment-3714 @Daria - Yeah, I think us 30-somethings are now coming into our own. In my experience, we fell into the trap of "school for money's sake" and we're finding out that it doesn't always work out like that. Better now than at 50 or 60 or never! @Daria – Yeah, I think us 30-somethings are now coming into our own. In my experience, we fell into the trap of “school for money’s sake” and we’re finding out that it doesn’t always work out like that. Better now than at 50 or 60 or never!

]]> By: Daria http://www.dmperez.com/2009/07/12/a-new-professional-goal-nursing/comment-page-1/#comment-3713 Daria Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:09:30 +0000 http://dmperez.com/?p=1406#comment-3713 Awesome choice! I'm glad that you have found something that you feel that you will enjoy!! I know that you are very lucky in doing so, as many people (myself included at this point), don't really know what they want to do when they 'grow up.' My fiance and I are both in our early 30s, and now he's taking a similar route as you are and wants to go to school to become an EMT!!! Once that is finished, I hope to go back and get some type of legal degree! Maybe the thirties is our generation's time to get a 'do over!' =) Seriously, Congratulations!!! Keep us posted on how everything goes! .-= Daria´s last blog... <a href="http://dariasblog.com/2009/07/call-off-the-dogs-found-it/" rel="nofollow">Call off the Dogs! Found It!</a> =-. Awesome choice!

I’m glad that you have found something that you feel that you will enjoy!! I know that you are very lucky in doing so, as many people (myself included at this point), don’t really know what they want to do when they ‘grow up.’

My fiance and I are both in our early 30s, and now he’s taking a similar route as you are and wants to go to school to become an EMT!!! Once that is finished, I hope to go back and get some type of legal degree!

Maybe the thirties is our generation’s time to get a ‘do over!’ =)

Seriously, Congratulations!!! Keep us posted on how everything goes!
.-= Daria´s last blog… Call off the Dogs! Found It! =-.

]]> By: Daniel M. Perez http://www.dmperez.com/2009/07/12/a-new-professional-goal-nursing/comment-page-1/#comment-3695 Daniel M. Perez Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:16:41 +0000 http://dmperez.com/?p=1406#comment-3695 @Ken - Thanks a lot for the supporting words and the story. I'm glad you also found your way, and I wish you all the luck in that. @Ken – Thanks a lot for the supporting words and the story. I’m glad you also found your way, and I wish you all the luck in that.

]]> By: Ken Marable http://www.dmperez.com/2009/07/12/a-new-professional-goal-nursing/comment-page-1/#comment-3693 Ken Marable Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:25:30 +0000 http://dmperez.com/?p=1406#comment-3693 Oh, and hey, there's nothing wrong with male nurses. :) Everyone knows that it's only the nurses who have any clue what's going on - from being aware of all of a patient's needs (and not just the narrow window of a speciality like cardiology or oncology) to being the ones who actually know how a hospital runs and how to get things done. Oh, and hey, there’s nothing wrong with male nurses. :) Everyone knows that it’s only the nurses who have any clue what’s going on – from being aware of all of a patient’s needs (and not just the narrow window of a speciality like cardiology or oncology) to being the ones who actually know how a hospital runs and how to get things done.

]]> By: Ken Marable http://www.dmperez.com/2009/07/12/a-new-professional-goal-nursing/comment-page-1/#comment-3692 Ken Marable Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:21:27 +0000 http://dmperez.com/?p=1406#comment-3692 Congratulations! I wish you the best of luck because it won't be easy, but it will certainly be worth it! In fact, I'd suggest writing down in as deeply personal language as you can a note to your future self (and no one else) explaining why this new direction is so important to you and putting it into a sealed envelope in a safe place. Then if at some point in your future when the reality of all the work ahead of you outweighs the passion you feel now, that letter to yourself can recharge your engines. But I can certainly identify with your track through English. I did the same thing with Philosophy (was good at it, so kept trying to get degrees in it). However, I plodded through 1.5 years of graduate school before burning out (but was dumb enough to try to complete the 2nd year and the grades unfortunately showed). Someone once explained the transition from undergrad to grad school as "In undergrad you pick an area that you want to learn about. In grad school, you pick an area you want to DO. You aren't learning anymore." My "year off" of grad school has turned into 12 years this summer, but with a lot of soul searching of my own I'm planning on going back in a year. Just like you would never have been ready to become a nurse all those years ago, I wasn't ready to complete my PhD. It was the time spent away actually living life that helped us realize what we truly wanted. In your case it's a new direction, and in mine it's oddly taking me back to where I started. Life is just funny that way. So good luck to you, and with the (com)passion you are feeling, and some dedication to the learning process, I don't see any thing keeping you from going all the way to oncology. You are the kind of doctor we need, not like several of my classmates growing up whose dad's were doctors, so they were expected to be a doctor, and followed that track because they never considered any other option. With a profession like that, it's all too common. Congratulations! I wish you the best of luck because it won’t be easy, but it will certainly be worth it! In fact, I’d suggest writing down in as deeply personal language as you can a note to your future self (and no one else) explaining why this new direction is so important to you and putting it into a sealed envelope in a safe place. Then if at some point in your future when the reality of all the work ahead of you outweighs the passion you feel now, that letter to yourself can recharge your engines.

But I can certainly identify with your track through English. I did the same thing with Philosophy (was good at it, so kept trying to get degrees in it). However, I plodded through 1.5 years of graduate school before burning out (but was dumb enough to try to complete the 2nd year and the grades unfortunately showed). Someone once explained the transition from undergrad to grad school as “In undergrad you pick an area that you want to learn about. In grad school, you pick an area you want to DO. You aren’t learning anymore.”

My “year off” of grad school has turned into 12 years this summer, but with a lot of soul searching of my own I’m planning on going back in a year. Just like you would never have been ready to become a nurse all those years ago, I wasn’t ready to complete my PhD. It was the time spent away actually living life that helped us realize what we truly wanted. In your case it’s a new direction, and in mine it’s oddly taking me back to where I started. Life is just funny that way.

So good luck to you, and with the (com)passion you are feeling, and some dedication to the learning process, I don’t see any thing keeping you from going all the way to oncology. You are the kind of doctor we need, not like several of my classmates growing up whose dad’s were doctors, so they were expected to be a doctor, and followed that track because they never considered any other option. With a profession like that, it’s all too common.

]]> By: Matt Wilson http://www.dmperez.com/2009/07/12/a-new-professional-goal-nursing/comment-page-1/#comment-3691 Matt Wilson Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:48:28 +0000 http://dmperez.com/?p=1406#comment-3691 Very cool. Nurses rock. Very cool. Nurses rock.

]]> By: Daniel M. Perez http://www.dmperez.com/2009/07/12/a-new-professional-goal-nursing/comment-page-1/#comment-3690 Daniel M. Perez Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:26:48 +0000 http://dmperez.com/?p=1406#comment-3690 Yeah, staying in Florida was pretty much in the cards since the start of this year. Yeah, staying in Florida was pretty much in the cards since the start of this year.

]]> By: David http://www.dmperez.com/2009/07/12/a-new-professional-goal-nursing/comment-page-1/#comment-3689 David Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:57:31 +0000 http://dmperez.com/?p=1406#comment-3689 Course corrections in life aren't easy, but it sounds like you've done quite a lot of thinking about this. I wish you all the best. In fact, I think that second careers (the voluntary ones at least) are often more satisfying. By the way, does that mean you'll be staying in Florida for a while? Course corrections in life aren’t easy, but it sounds like you’ve done quite a lot of thinking about this. I wish you all the best. In fact, I think that second careers (the voluntary ones at least) are often more satisfying.

By the way, does that mean you’ll be staying in Florida for a while?

]]> By: Daniel M. Perez http://www.dmperez.com/2009/07/12/a-new-professional-goal-nursing/comment-page-1/#comment-3688 Daniel M. Perez Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:28:56 +0000 http://dmperez.com/?p=1406#comment-3688 Thanks, Mark. Thanks, Mark.

]]> By: Mark http://www.dmperez.com/2009/07/12/a-new-professional-goal-nursing/comment-page-1/#comment-3687 Mark Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:23:44 +0000 http://dmperez.com/?p=1406#comment-3687 Very few people have one career goal, some have many, others take time to find their path. Congratulations on finding a new path that excites you. Very few people have one career goal, some have many, others take time to find their path. Congratulations on finding a new path that excites you.

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