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Posted: Oct 25, 2010

Instead of sitting here crying, I'm smiling a little because I am putting my plan B into action starting in January. Going to school for my RN degree. Just hope I can keep in enough work to get me through 4 semesters of it, then they can have it!

good for you! - sm

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Going back to school has been a great and challenging experience for me. I feel alive again after being deadened by MT work for 16 years with my self esteem in the dirt. There are now grants out there if you make under a certain amount of money to help you survive. Also loans to supplement, which are paying my bills. Good luck!

Thanks! - nn

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What are you going to school for?

going to school - sm

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I'm full time getting an associates with a transfer to a University for a BSW and then an MSW (masters in social work).

Yes, salary has taken such a deep dive that all - my community college

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tuition was paid for by state grants. My only regret about leaving MT'ing is that I am going to have to go out and join the regular world. I went into MT'ing to get the freedom I have had, and now I am reluctant to lose that. I definitely wouldn't be working the late shift if I wasn't working at home. No sleepy driving home, just go to bed.

Do the grants only pay for tuition, or do they help - with living expenses while in school?

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If not, how do you do it? (Go to school, study, do homework and/or labs), AND still work enough hours to pay for food and housing?

loans and grants - sm

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I receive 700 in grants per semester and 4000 in loans. My husband makes 12 dollars an hour so it is supplementing quite nicely until he finds a higher paying job.

Hmm. I guess I'm outta luck. Thanks for answering - my question, though! ;) nm

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nm

Just curious, how old are you? - Almostseniorcitizen

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I'm just curious as to how old you are. You are definitely doing the right thing -- RN will have you set for the rest of your life money-wise. I just don't have the drive to go back to school after almost 40 years have passed. Congratulations and much luck to you in your new career!

Thank you! - Just turned 40

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Day after day of no jobs, no jobs, no jobs just finally spurred me to do it once and for all! It will be very hard but I am READY!!!

Wish I was young again - Only 51

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Got my BS in nursing in 1980, worked as a hospital and clinic nurse for 10 years (7 different fields) and HATED it. I remember the toll it took on my body in my 20s (caught scabies from a bagman and hepatitis from a needle stick). I just couldn't do that again, especially 30 years later. Plus I'd have to go back to school to renew my license. Just not worth it for me. I also have a second at-home job that I adore which I would have to give up if I worked days/evenings/nights in a single week, which is inevitable as a nurse just starting at a hospital. I'd love to leave medicine altogether despite being so good at it by now. I'm also afraid of what might happen should the government try to control our wages in response to some new healthcare "reforms." What else could I do at home?

I'm right with you, sister - Only 52

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I feel frozen in place. I can't think of anything I want to do, besides retire (LOL) and I can't afford that! I think there are a lot of us in this position. I personally feel the profession I've put my lifesblood into for the past 20 years has betrayed me.

Ditto - 52 in one month - anon

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Me too -- at 55 - Frozeninplace

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I feel exactly as you do frozen in place. But I don't think it is our profession that betrayed, but MQ who continues to betray us by not treating us like human beings, not speaking to us, not including us. I'd like to wake up one morning and know what I want to do "now" as MT-ing is a job I love and one that is perfect for me -- whether it is editing or typing -- I just wish there was the same amount of work that we used to have.

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