This thread Will never die!

Me too....pretty pink sea salt.

 

Fire? Shorts, Flip Flops....Beautiful Sunsets....Lucky enough to live on blue water.

 

Perfect early fall day today. Wind started up and there was a brief and colorful shower of red and yellow leaves out of a "bluebird" sky (not a cloud in sight). Have some shelves to put up in the pantry and then gonna grab me a .22 and walk out back and see if I can pop me a couple squirrels for supper.

Its a great day in New England monkeys.

 

I've been gone from the forums for quite a bit now (school... agh! ) but I should be a bit more active now (hopefully).

Looking forward to the second winter snowfall, when I can start using good ol' fashioned heating. A fire!

 

My friend, Scott, playing in Charleston...He owns The Smokin' Tuna bar in Key West.....

 

Neither of you must live in Texas, ever seen some of their rivers from the air. They look like dirt roads.

 

Staying the course...

I've just spent the last 1 1/2 years taking classes. These classes are not for Nursing (a degree in nursing) but are actually the prerequisite classes that are geared towards all of the college's health field majors. They are referenced as "pre-clinicals" because after this semester, I have to APPLY (not everyone makes it) to clinicals for an RN associate.

That's right, I didn't even get started; I'm still taking the basics of what every student in a health related field of study needs to know to be up to speed. After I apply to get into the clinical program, I have a whole semester to wait until I know if I'm not in or starting classes in August.

Until then, I can do one of two things. I can take several classes needed by a 4 year college for a Bachelor's of Nursing as transfer credits so I don't have to spend money on the filler classes at a 4 year institution. With these classes out of the way, and after the 1 1/2 years of clinicals to get an associate RN, I could then go to the more expensive college for just the core classes of the curriculum. Hopefully I would be employed as an RN by that time, and take these classes online.

My second choice would be to go back to work as an electrician (for whatever pittance of a weak-ass job I could find) for however long I could while I would be waiting for August to roll around. I could take online classes (just 1 or 2 for the semester) while I'm working, as they wouldn't be too much of a burden on my time. The rest of the classes would have to be taken after clinicals are over, and before I would apply to a 4 year college.

I'm very lucky since I have a really good community college nearby that has made deals with several other 4 year colleges to have their classes physically held on the community college campus. That means- no traveling 1 or 1 1/2 hours (one way) for a 50 minute class. Essentially, getting a 4 year degree from a community college!

See, the problem is that the 4 year BN degree is becoming a standard for the industry. There are no hospitals in this area that will hire an RN with just an associate's degree, unless they are currently working on getting their BN. That would kind of limit my options for finding a job and making all of this effort worth it.

 

I harbor no illusions to the future. This is going to be my third career in life. I fell for the "they're going to need..." line of BS two times already. I didn't choose the nursing field for the money. When things were going good, and work was plenty, I was making quite a bit as a journeyman electrician and flight instructing on the weekends.

No, this time around I feel compelled to become an RN. I'm sure I'm standing with the Lord on this one, because I can't explain the wildly complex series of events that lead me up to this very point in life. How else could I explain being on the dean's list? It surely wasn't my doing! How could I explain an almost complete scholarship for an associate's degree?

Every other time that I tried to do something on my own, I find myself failing in such a miserable way, when it should have been easy. Nope, the only way I can explain it is the Lord wants me to do this, or I would have messed it up (by myself) a long time ago.

 

Sometime we must simply "let go and let God".

Best wishes.

 

Thank goodness...I've smiled a lot this past year....

 

Just some of the crazy folks I saw around the pool at The Casa in Key West...

I love Key West.....