careers.

no not the game! :) what i do for a living. my career. now i'm not sure how much i've talked about my job on here. i have a way short attention span so bear with me if i've been down that road before.
how the heck did i end up in nursing? i know that i never thought i would be a nurse. i always wanted to be a physical therapist or maybe even a teacher. but a nurse, the thought never entered my mind. you see a little under ten years ago a boy i liked, let's call him my husband, decided he was going to go to college in appleton, wisconsin...premed. and this crazy, stalker girlfriend, i mean wife {ahem, me} did want to be eight hours away. my plan was to go to i.u. they had the best pt program and i always thought that was where i was going to go to school. but i decided that i wanted to stay home. and i needed an excuse to justify it. so nursing school was it. purdue cal is one of the best nursing schools in the area. better than lafayette. better accreditations, better passing rates. i figured that was my out. if i could get in, everyone would understand my decision and not judge me for wanting to stay home to be closer to nick.
funny, huh. how things work. how life's little twists and turns always seem to work out. they might not always be for the best. but i figure you have to learn something from everything.... but back to this topic. it did work out for the best. although, nick isn't a m.d. he is still a doctor. a rph. i couldn't be prouder. he loves what he does and he worked his butt off to get where he is today. and through everything i ended up doing something i couldn't imagine my life without. nursing.
people always say if they won the lottery, they would quit their job. i wouldn't. okay, i would go part time but i don't think i could ever fully walk away. i am so grateful to have found a career that i love. that i can envision my self doing forever. and not just the nursing. the oncology nursing. such a challenging and rewarding area. another thing that i stumbled upon. that i almost didn't have because of a cross country move scheduled for nick's internship in pharmacy. so glad that nick and i could talk out the pros and cons. to actually make a well educated decision. to think through all of the repercussions. to be so grown up. to work as a team.
i guess all this rambling just stems from all the thinking i've been doing lately. i'm such a deep thinker. sometimes so much so that it's a bad thing. but ya never know what is in store. that the easiest thing might not be the right thing. if you don't try, you'll never know. so i guess it's worth a shot regardless of the outcome because at least you tried or did the right thing.....and who knows. it might even end up being the best thing that happened to ya.