>>34435982
if you're unsure whether or not nursing will make you happy, find the fattest fuck in your neighborhood, feed them broccoli, cheese, and milk, wait 6 hours, then wipe their ass and change their diaper. you'll then know if you want to really be a nurse. might be better to be a programmer you fucking idiot

>>34435999
Or maybe I want to do something with my life that isn't idling senselessly on apps that nobody fucking uses. I'd rather wipe asses if it helps people you fucking prick.

Are you picky about the specific nursing school? Try community colleges vs uni or professional degree schools.

My school allocated a points system but others were first come first serve.

The points were based mostly off of grades in the prerequisite. Can you retake a class?

Could try other allied health (respiratory tech, xray tech etc)
Get a job as a health aid, no degree required.

>>34436625
I've completed all my course, and retaking enough classes to theoretically raise my GPA to an A- would require two years of full time study. I'd prefer uni generally speaking, but I've been looking at college programs to work as a registered practical nurse (which in Canada is the community college version).

>>34435982
I was a doctor and wanted to get into programming. Why do you hate it anon? What do you expect to find in nursing?

Because nursing fucking sucks anon, that's a job for tradies. If you want a comfy clinical job without much thinking go physiotherapy.

>>34436612
Then why tf are you coming here for advice if you already know you wanna do it you little bitch

>>34436647
Because the pathway isn't at all obvious for me and I was looking for advice in that regard.
>>34436635
Why would you leave being a doctor? And I don't know what I expect to find exactly besides being useful to people and helping them no matter how shit, literal or metaphorical, that ends up being.

>>34436635
Why the fuck would anyone ever stop being a doctor?

>>34435982
Apply. Admissions committees LOVE the "I was too immature back then but know what I want now" story and will bend the GPA rules for you.

>>34436863
How would I even get that info in front of them? All they'd see is my grades and educational history.

>>34436612
If you get paid then who gives a shit nobody likes their job you faggot

>>34436738
>>34436650
It relies heavily on an aggresive personality. Empathy is punished in the role of doctor. If you're the kind of student who believed in socratic humility, you will go nowhere from the amount of incomplete information you deal with, from books saying contradictory conclusions of studies, to a great amount of unknown conditions affecting the patient in outlier but dangerous cases, also the increasing amount of memory holes as you age . You will have to balance whether you work for efficience or effectiveness at all times, you will be pushed to work at extreme efficience while being conscious of giving subpar service intentionally. You will be doing good work by regular industry standards 100% of the time, yet you will be punished 20% of the times for your work not being perfect despite making personal sacrifices. At the sight of injustice you will have to tradeoff being assertive and making a stand against it or bitterly letting it happen because of consequences or opportunities.

It's fucking hell, every move you do is the wrong move. The only way to like it is to be an absolute asshole and have a blast shitting on subordinates while being content with doing a subpar job and bullshitting your way through workplace politics.

Just become a physiotherapist if you wanna be close to patients, a dentist if you want money, a psychologist if you want the maximum revenue/effort, respiratory therapy if you wanna LARP as an anesthesiologist. There's some newborn care stuff too if you don't want to clean senior asses to play with babies. All of them have the potential to earn the same as their main professions once in private practice, none of them have to deal with the retarded culture of shit.

>>34437118
Honestly, fair enough. If I said I was leaning towards psychiatric nursing, should I even get into the field, would you have any advice for me?

>>34437168
Fucking lol stick to your software job you don't want that.

>>34437279
Why not?

>>34437279
Wrangling schizos fun
Being a code monkey soul crushing

>>34437457
Precisely

>>34435982
>Is there any hope for me or am I destined to hate my life?
Why nurse? Why not doctor? Are you a woman?

>>34437554
Nurse because I like the idea of practicing more consistent care than the in and out bullshit doctors are known for. That and it's easier to get into nursing than into medical school.

>>34437615
Are you European? Can't you just do it in another country?

>>34437435
It really sucks. Every case file is like locked in a closet for a year raped by father screams and flings shit at the wall

>>34437688
Canadian.
>>34438053
Somehow I doubt it's that bad.

>>34438142
Nah. it is. You also can't mechanically restrain people so when somebody decides to reeeeeeeee you have to hold them down as long as they keep doing it. Imagine holding somebody while they screeeeeech for 90 minutes. That's the job.

>>34438276
I mean I'm a BJJ blue belt, so that sounds like my kinda fun time.

>>34437615
However, if you're looking at years of edu (redo) might as well study for mcat and apply as a non-traditional. Get a job as a scribe in the ER since you have no medical background.

>>34438470
no it does not
these people are disgusting
most are rape/child abuse victims

Ya if your sole reason is to help people/got "the calling" you're gonna get burned out

>>34435982
>B+ wouldn't get me into a single program
Have you actually tried applying?
Most places in NA have a nursing shortage, especially male nurses.

>>34438990
I was half joking, honestly I know that'd be part of the job and I'm certainly comfortable with it though.
>>34439264
I don't think that's my sole reason. The pay is good, you get to leave work at work instead of a boss breathing down your neck about unreasonable deadlines, and medicine is a very interesting field. I know for a fact I'm good at detail oriented work.
>>34439267
I haven't yet, but based on HS admission averages I'll be shit out of luck. I graduated uni with a B+, and these programs are looking for 93%+ averages.

>>34438492
I imagine studying for the MCAT would be a bitch and a half.

>>34439401
As a nurse, you will be subjected to the expectations of giving the best care to people who often dont participate in the plan of care themselves. Except for peds, newborn, maternity (maybe). Psychiatric nurses have high burn out I think if something like the above bothers you.

Nursing is a job just like any other. A supervisor has census to deal with delegating admits/discharges/escalations to the nurses. Yes, you clock out and leave everything at work. Can you get a different job in your current field. Something where you dont have the deadlines you dont like. Maybe a job with a medical aspect.

>>34439402
It's a parrot test not one where you actually have to problem solve. If he has a cs degree he has already done like 5 levels of math higher than what a doctor requires. Medicine is literally just memorization and will not be a problem provided he just does practice tests and flash cards.

>>34439750
I've considered it, but the fact is I just don't enjoy programming. I prefer less abstract tasks, doing things with my hands in a physical space and the like. With programming I never really feel I've done anything at day's end.
>>34439790
Interesting. I may have to consider this, but I also don't have much of a bio/chem background. Even to apply to nursing I'd need the prereq highschool courses I never took.

>>34436612
Join the army.

>>34439937
Health conditions. Trust me, I tried.

>>34439937
That's the worst possible option.

>>34439801
>doing things with my hands in a physical space and the like.
Wood working, plumbing, electrician.

>>34439974
Also things I've looked into, but I've always felt comfortable in medical settings (as a patient) and feel like it'd be fulfilling.

Can I take your job OP? I need a career in IT.

>>34440004
What are you in right now? It might not be for me but I'm pretty good at it, and I'd be happy to give you some advice.

>>34440028
Lol 0 experience, bro. Right now I'm studying for my comptia and security + because I keep hearing that having just comptia these days isn't impressive to the eyes of employers, is it true?

>>34440045
So CompTIA is the cert provider, and Security+ is one of the certs. Are you studying for Network+/A+ alongside it? But yeah, the CompTIA stuff can be pretty take it or leave it depending on the employer. It also depends on what you want to do.
If you're into networks at all, I would highly advise going the CCNA route. It's a very hands on and practical cert with a rigorous exam, and a lot of people hold it in higher regard than Network+ even while it's vendor specific (because a lot of what you learn is transferable).
If you're into the security side of things, it can help and really grounds you in the networking fundamentals you'll be leaning on. Beyond that look up the BTL1 course/cert as they also have some good hands on stuff if you're into the blue team side of things.

>>34440070
>Are you studying for Network+/A+ alongside it?
My mistake. I meant to say that I'm studying the A+ cert alongside Network+.
>If you're into networks at all, I would highly advise going the CCNA route
Oh wow, seriously? Does CCNA go over everything in Network+ as well?

>>34440084
Basically yes. If you don't trust my opinion if also look it up online (network+ vs CCNA) - most sentiment will probably align with mine. The A+ is generally good to have though, so I'd see that one through.
If you're looking for a course look no further than JeremysITLab. I'd even shell out for the paid version of the complete course on his website (I was a big fan, and might have something in the works to move to a networking role on the back of this course/cert cause I hate programming). Do the labs, do the flash cards, take notes on the videos and you will pass no sweat at all.

Do literally anything but be a nurse, you're too stupid anyways.

>>34440084
Network+ and a+ are completely fucking worthless. Just get ccna and sec+ then get whichever cloud you want either aws solutions archetect or azure administrator.

>>34440321
A+ is fine if you have literally no tech background.

>>34440321
It helps with resumes. Mine expired in 2021, but I still have it listed. It's rare anyone actually checks if you're just going to an MSP or something

>>34437118
it makes sense to me, imo nobody whos intelligent frequents doctors, the health system seems utter shit
like they are literally just legalized and glorified drug dealers of the pharma
literally never have i seen a patient getting better after visiting the hospital.
any smart person could detect that its just a shitty system
i have a stem degree, i know exactly the kind of people who get med degrees, and also what they do (remember vocabulary for decades like a dog)
i can see through the act as an outsider, i dont even think im special or smart, but this is what makes me think most people are insanely stupid, that they cant even detect simple things like this. the doctors office is basically like a big fake act.. but most people are so retarded its like they think doctors are magicians who magically heal everything or something
i literally never go to the doctor and avoid it as much as i can
i obviously didnt take the coof vax either