Didn't finish my Master's...

[loganb_football]

Well guys, I am in the nursing profession and the only reason I stayed in was to go to get my master's degree. Well that hasn't worked out, and I am unhappy in the profession so I want to get out of it. I've come to figure out that it isn't really what I enjoy, and I was wondering if you guys have any ideas about degree's that could lead to some good experiences?

I don't think you can really go wrong with a business degree. I have thought about engineering as well... Can you guys give me any other suggestions? I don't care for being a nurse anymore, I have tried several different nursing jobs and I really didn't enjoy any of them.

 

[Gambel]

Well guys, I am in the nursing profession and the only reason I stayed in was to go to get my master's degree. Well that hasn't worked out, and I am unhappy in the profession so I want to get out of it. I've come to figure out that it isn't really what I enjoy, and I was wondering if you guys have any ideas about degree's that could lead to some good experiences?

I don't think you can really go wrong with a business degree. I have thought about engineering as well... Can you guys give me any other suggestions? I don't care for being a nurse anymore, I have tried several different nursing jobs and I really didn't enjoy any of them.

What in particular do you not like about it? Is it the patient care aspect or are you not interested in health care in general? If you still have an interest in health care but do not like typical patient care, then you may want to consider a career in health care administration. Other options would include performing case review work or other types of work where you would utilize your nursing expertise but not be involved in direct patient care. The health care industry is full of opportunity, so unless you are completely disinterested in health care, you may want to explore other health care-related options. Best of luck to you!!!

 

[loganb_football]

What in particular do you not like about it? Is it the patient care aspect or are you not interested in health care in general? If you still have an interest in health care but do not like typical patient care, then you may want to consider a career in health care administration. Other options would include performing case review work or other types of work where you would utilize your nursing expertise but not be involved in direct patient care. The health care industry is full of opportunity, so unless you are completely disinterested in health care, you may want to explore other health care-related options. Best of luck to you!!!

To be honest with you, I'm completely disinterested with healthcare. I have done case work, and worked in patient care settings. To be honest, I thought it would be more fulfilling, but with patient care, you have so many ungrateful patient's its just not what I wanted. I went to a desk job, but I can't sit down for eight hours at a time. I guess it's just been some bad experiences but it has me totally disinterested in being in healthcare. Architecture has really been an interest to me. Also, contracting seems pretty cool. I want to get some opinions on people's experiences. The last thing I want to do is go into a profession I hate again.

 

[Pekkerwood]

Logan:

Engineering is not something you just jump into. You kinda have to like it to be good at it. . I believe an engineering degree from a good school may make it easier to get a starting position but, engineering can be somewhat limiting as a career unless you ....get out of engineering, into management or project management. BTW, exactly zero of my friends I graduated with are still engineers.

I would absolutely not suffer through 6 quarters of calculus, thermodynamics, deformable bodies, statics, etc if I did not really know engineering was my calling. I've done both. Engineering is to business classes as chess is to checkers.


Good Luck,

Pekkerwood

 

[pesty4077]

To be honest with you, I'm completely disinterested with healthcare. I have done case work, and worked in patient care settings. To be honest, I thought it would be more fulfilling, but with patient care, you have so many ungrateful patient's its just not what I wanted. I went to a desk job, but I can't sit down for eight hours at a time. I guess it's just been some bad experiences but it has me totally disinterested in being in healthcare. Architecture has really been an interest to me. Also, contracting seems pretty cool. I want to get some opinions on people's experiences. The last thing I want to do is go into a profession I hate again.

I guess every thing that you do is how you look at it. I am a license General Contractor, worse profession you can get into, in this economy. Health care is the best for job stability, even in this bad economy. You only did part of the health care industry, many more things to choose from. What ever you decide, you better make sure it will survive, even in a bad economy. Think Long Term.

 

[loganb_football]

Thanks for the advice guys. I think I will tolerate healthcare for right now. My parents own a very lucrative healthcare agency, and will eventually take that over. I think I will take some classes r/t healthcare administration, business classes, and marketing. I think I will be happier in a more business like setting. I keep looking for another healthcare job as Pesty mentioned as well. I just want to find something I'm happy with, and while the healthcare field is very stable, I'm afraid I won't be able to say the same thing about my mental status if I stay with the job I am at...

 

[RexHead]

With your background you could work for one of the larger healthcare software providers (Cerner, McKesson, Siemens, Meditech, Epic, etc). You could be an implementation consultant. It would get you away from patient care and more into the IT/Business area. They love hiring clinicians.

Just throwing out an option.

 

[bigduff]

engineering is a bad choice. maybe go into something where you can do hospital administration as your background will help you get a job.

 

[Nssca]

Well guys, I am in the nursing profession and the only reason I stayed in was to go to get my master's degree. Well that hasn't worked out, and I am unhappy in the profession so I want to get out of it. I've come to figure out that it isn't really what I enjoy, and I was wondering if you guys have any ideas about degree's that could lead to some good experiences?

I don't think you can really go wrong with a business degree. I have thought about engineering as well... Can you guys give me any other suggestions? I don't care for being a nurse anymore, I have tried several different nursing jobs and I really didn't enjoy any of them.

You have your RN...do you have any idea how good you have it?
You want to just start over by thinking that getting your business degree will some how make you happy. Your a fool

Nursing is so lateral in its options. You can do hundreds of different jobs with in the field of nursing.
There are thousands of people much brighter than you that have a masters in Business and they can find anything but delivering pizza for domino's.

Stay in your field and look around you. Emergency/surgery/Psychiatric/geriatrics, working for health insurance companies, working for a private Physician....the list goes on and on... sooooo you need to think...and thinking is hard, I know...I know, but give it a try.

 

[triathloncoach]

Nursing is one of the toughest professions

I have an MBA and was working my way up the corporate ladder of one of he top Pharmaceutical companies. Making really good money, somewhat prestigious. But I hated it. Fucking hated it. So about 10 years ago I quit to coach triathletes and be a personal trainer. This went fairly well to the point where I opened my own 6,000 square foot gym. That went well for nearly 3 years when the membership started to drop and the gym stopped making money. The gym closed and it was a financial catastrophe.

Well, I'm back in pharmaceuticals and hating it again. But I appreciate the relative financial stability and the comfort level that comes from my years of experience.

I'm still the first person to say life is short and to follow your dreams - just ask my bankruptcy attorney, but take a hard hard inventory of what you have right now. Going back to college to earn an engineering degree sounds brutal. Aside from what it would cost you in time, money and lost income.

Go get a MPH or a MBA and move into the business side of Healthcare. I haven't seen a patient since I was a drug rep in the early 90s. And I don't miss them, or the hospital floors, or the ICUs, or the ERs or the Doctor offices one tiny bit. You can still leverage your education and experience and work in an office all day long. Heaven.

You can also try to look beyond your job for fulfillment. Most people don't like their jobs. Find more happiness in your personal life.

 

[jeriko1975]

Engineering product design is very interesting and pays well.
Management jobs are hard to get and usually short lived.

 

[Steve123]

Well guys, I am in the nursing profession and the only reason I stayed in was to go to get my master's degree. Well that hasn't worked out, and I am unhappy in the profession so I want to get out of it. I've come to figure out that it isn't really what I enjoy, and I was wondering if you guys have any ideas about degree's that could lead to some good experiences?

I don't think you can really go wrong with a business degree. I have thought about engineering as well... Can you guys give me any other suggestions? I don't care for being a nurse anymore, I have tried several different nursing jobs and I really didn't enjoy any of them.

Old post but I figured I would chime in here in case you're still thinking about it.

I'm a Financial Advisor at one of the big wire houses. I don't even have a degree - although I have enough scattered classes to have one + professional designations, licenses and post graduate certificates. The thing is, I like what I do and I'm good at it.

The point is: don't just aimlessly head off to school trying to find the promise land. Figure out how you want to spend every day for the rest of your life first; then, and only then, consider if that endeavor requires additional formal education. DOn't just drink the College Coolade. Universities would have us all beleive that unless we fork over 10's of thousands of dollars to them, it's curtains for our careers. Think of Universities and Education as another tool at your disposal and use it as needed. Also, realize that Univerisities are not God like creations. They are in business to make money and their marketing is obvious.

 

[Stang]

I was a pm for a construction company(125k a yr.) until I got laid off 14 months ago. Now at 46yrs. old, I'm back in college, getting my BS. in IT.
Never too late!

 

[Steve123]

I was a pm for a construction company(125k a yr.) until I got laid off 14 months ago. Now at 46yrs. old, I'm back in college, getting my Ba. in IT.
Never too late!

Never too late at all! With the COntruction PM experience have you thought about doing the PMP? That along with your experience would be powerfull.

 

[dragonfire101]

Well guys, I am in the nursing profession and the only reason I stayed in was to go to get my master's degree. Well that hasn't worked out, and I am unhappy in the profession so I want to get out of it. I've come to figure out that it isn't really what I enjoy, and I was wondering if you guys have any ideas about degree's that could lead to some good experiences?

I don't think you can really go wrong with a business degree. I have thought about engineering as well... Can you guys give me any other suggestions? I don't care for being a nurse anymore, I have tried several different nursing jobs and I really didn't enjoy any of them.

Wife has a business degree and got laid off and actually went back to school for nursing.

If U can go back and complete APRN U can easily work for some community or private counseling center and do their medication management for their clients. U would just be writing scripts for psychotropics and sending then for lab work. Big bucks and easy. Many places now have APRN providing medication management instead of psychiatrist.

 

[Stang]

Never too late at all! With the COntruction PM experience have you thought about doing the PMP? That along with your experience would be powerfull.

I actuall have a BS degree in Building Construction from VT.

 

[DEADn]

I kind of feel your pain. I am going back to school working on an AA degree in liberal arts. That is because I don't have an actual major. I am somewhat interested in something with IT but I am not great in math.

Wife told me to to interdisciplinary studies but in looking at that program there are a few things that I would hate to have to deal with.

Previously I major in architecture and psychology. For now I am just focused on an AA degree.

Healthcare is one of those field that is important and yet thankless at the same time. I would think you could find a job anywhere with that background. I thought about this at one time but my mom told me to stay where I am workwise because the retirement is so much better. She has been a nurse since 1983 and says the retirement at the hospitial absolutely sucks.

 

[HeavyHands]

You have more choices than you know being an RN. However. Forget about going back to get a degree in engineering. If you want more education, get a more versatile degree that can augment virtually anything: the MBA, maybe with a focus on MIS/IT. You could always go for the CRN too if you can get into a program (highly competitive). Technology and healthcare are two excellent industries - increased dependency and responsibility of technology in the down economy, and the necessity that is healthcare (likewise education). Before you do anything, weigh the costs and benefits: it is a costly investment both in time, money, and increased stress. The benefit is the possibility for better opportunities, perhaps different job opportunities, and higher income... the sum of which would bring greater long-term happiness. And yes, I would make the argument that money CAN buy happiness **broken link removed**

 

[PsyT]

if you really don't know what you want to do then an option is to take out some loan money (school loan) and travel for a few months then get hooked up with a relief project (like peace corps but there are many others such as Red Cross's programs) and help people that WILL be grateful for your help. You could enter into the medical side of things or you could do something else (building, teaching, etc).

Also, another random idea...if you like first response and you like the outdoors and you are tough...you could go after a W-EMT cert and become a wilderness medic. They do some crazy fucking shit (rescues, etc). and the job is very rewarding (as far as I take it from two friends that do that work, one my brother another a longtime climbing partner of mine). Its a no BS job though. Hard. But rewarding. Well paying too.

 

[loganb_football]

Thanks all for the advice. I'm currently still doing the same stuff, but will look into some of the things mentioned. I will also be taking some serious consideration as to what it will be!