Twenty nine year old, mom of two, divorced, and starting life over. This is me. After being out of school for nine years plus I am back in. Change of major, change of life views, and scared out of my mind.
I worked in construction off and on for ten years. Ten years of working in a man driven industry. I was good at my job. But after so long I no longer loved it. So there I sit trying to figure out what do I want to do when I grow up. It dawned on me....nursing thats what I want to do.
My son who is now five was a NICU baby. We had some wonderful nurses there. I want to be one of them. I no longer want to go to a job where what I do really makes no difference. There has to be something I could do where what I do makes a difference to others like those NICU nurses did for me. Then I lost my job. After working for a GC for almost three years I found myself unemployeed and unsure what I wanted to do. Sure I said many times I am going to go back to school. Just never had any reason to really.
Now here I sit. College student, and stay at home mom. I am lucky. My SO makes enough to afford for us to have me stay home with my kids. Yup thats right they arnt even his.
I started back to school last week. Because I signed up for a late start course everything is being squished into my pea brain in the course of eight weeks. Now I have been assigned a research paper and I am sitting here scratching my head because for the life of me I cannot figure out what to do it on.
Sure there are numerous ideas that have popped into my head. But none seem good enough for my paper. What the heck was I thinking? Almost thirty years old and going back to school and switching my major. But I know I can and I will do this. Life has placed huge speed bumps in my path. But they can't stop me and they won't slow me down.
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