Bleh. Semi-vent/boring post
realisticdreams
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I really want to go back to school. But, everything that interests me is full time m-f. (nursing, radiography, sonography) I don't have any options for a part-time nursing program, even if I did they would probably be 4-10pm or 5-11pm something like that, and I don't have an H home to put the girls in bed (not that he could even if he was home). He works 1pm-1am and leaves by 12pm and gets up around 11:30, so the amount of time we see him is verrry little considering he works 6 days on, 2 days off.
Our appointments are decreasing a little bit, which is leaving me with this bored feeling, however I still have to take/pick up P to pre-school 2 days/week (35mins away) and she has ballet 1 other night a week (50 mins away) then the other days they have a dr. appointment maybe 1/week and M is getting developmental therapy 1/month right now.
I know if I was still crazy busy with dr's/therapy I wouldn't be thinking about school again, but it sucks not having a support system that makes it possible. And then I think, even if I did make it through, would I ever find a job that was flexible, or it would it be a waste of time & money.
Even picking up more work at my part-time job (1 day/month to stay on payroll) isn't really an option bc they make the schedule 4 weeks ish in advance, and would need the same availability every week which it changes, and work is in the opposite direction of everything else.
I wish their was an ideal career path for me. I would even considering out of the medical field, even though it's all i've known as long as it was interesting to me.
I know once the girls start regular school I can try to figure something else out, but that will be in 3 & 4 years respectively for kindergarten. And even then, what will I do where I am there to put them on the bus & get them off, I can't think of much!
/vent over!
(does anyone know what I want to be when I grow up? Because, I don't!)
Re: Bleh. Semi-vent/boring post
I know I have pretty much zero desire to get my CNA. And minimal desire to get my LPN. I want to eventually be an NP if I were to go the nurse route & those things are just not beneficial to me. I've worked in retail pharmacy for 11 years so I actually make more than LPN's do here. I don't want to go backwards, is the main problem I guess. I've worked in a hospital before too as a telemetry tech for a 2nd job so I knew alot of nurses, etc.
I just don't have many options for childcare, really. Without being able to work full-time I couldn't afford child-care in our area, but still P doesn't qualify for busing to the special needs preschool so i'd have to take her. I guess I need something extremely flexible. I also really enjoy accounting/spreadsheets/billing stuff.
I'm pretty sure I will always go back to wanting to do nursing.
What about one of the Visiting Angels type jobs where you help out elderly needing rides to the doctor or with light household tasks?