>>34435982
if you're unsure whether or not nursing will make you happy, find the fattest fuck in your neighborhood, feed them broccoli, cheese, and milk, wait 6 hours, then wipe their ass and change their diaper. you'll then know if you want to really be a nurse. might be better to be a programmer you fucking idiot

>>34435999
Or maybe I want to do something with my life that isn't idling senselessly on apps that nobody fucking uses. I'd rather wipe asses if it helps people you fucking prick.

Are you picky about the specific nursing school? Try community colleges vs uni or professional degree schools.

My school allocated a points system but others were first come first serve.

The points were based mostly off of grades in the prerequisite. Can you retake a class?

Could try other allied health (respiratory tech, xray tech etc)
Get a job as a health aid, no degree required.

>>34436625
I've completed all my course, and retaking enough classes to theoretically raise my GPA to an A- would require two years of full time study. I'd prefer uni generally speaking, but I've been looking at college programs to work as a registered practical nurse (which in Canada is the community college version).

>>34435982
I was a doctor and wanted to get into programming. Why do you hate it anon? What do you expect to find in nursing?

Because nursing fucking sucks anon, that's a job for tradies. If you want a comfy clinical job without much thinking go physiotherapy.

>>34436612
Then why tf are you coming here for advice if you already know you wanna do it you little bitch

>>34436647
Because the pathway isn't at all obvious for me and I was looking for advice in that regard.
>>34436635
Why would you leave being a doctor? And I don't know what I expect to find exactly besides being useful to people and helping them no matter how shit, literal or metaphorical, that ends up being.

>>34436635
Why the fuck would anyone ever stop being a doctor?

>>34435982
Apply. Admissions committees LOVE the "I was too immature back then but know what I want now" story and will bend the GPA rules for you.

>>34436863
How would I even get that info in front of them? All they'd see is my grades and educational history.

>>34436612
If you get paid then who gives a shit nobody likes their job you faggot

>>34436738
>>34436650
It relies heavily on an aggresive personality. Empathy is punished in the role of doctor. If you're the kind of student who believed in socratic humility, you will go nowhere from the amount of incomplete information you deal with, from books saying contradictory conclusions of studies, to a great amount of unknown conditions affecting the patient in outlier but dangerous cases, also the increasing amount of memory holes as you age . You will have to balance whether you work for efficience or effectiveness at all times, you will be pushed to work at extreme efficience while being conscious of giving subpar service intentionally. You will be doing good work by regular industry standards 100% of the time, yet you will be punished 20% of the times for your work not being perfect despite making personal sacrifices. At the sight of injustice you will have to tradeoff being assertive and making a stand against it or bitterly letting it happen because of consequences or opportunities.

It's fucking hell, every move you do is the wrong move. The only way to like it is to be an absolute asshole and have a blast shitting on subordinates while being content with doing a subpar job and bullshitting your way through workplace politics.

Just become a physiotherapist if you wanna be close to patients, a dentist if you want money, a psychologist if you want the maximum revenue/effort, respiratory therapy if you wanna LARP as an anesthesiologist. There's some newborn care stuff too if you don't want to clean senior asses to play with babies. All of them have the potential to earn the same as their main professions once in private practice, none of them have to deal with the retarded culture of shit.

>>34437118
Honestly, fair enough. If I said I was leaning towards psychiatric nursing, should I even get into the field, would you have any advice for me?

>>34437168
Fucking lol stick to your software job you don't want that.

>>34437279
Why not?

>>34437279
Wrangling schizos fun
Being a code monkey soul crushing

>>34437457
Precisely

>>34435982
>Is there any hope for me or am I destined to hate my life?
Why nurse? Why not doctor? Are you a woman?

>>34437554
Nurse because I like the idea of practicing more consistent care than the in and out bullshit doctors are known for. That and it's easier to get into nursing than into medical school.