I live in Connecticut right now and have been living here since I was 6 years old (I'm now 24). I work two full time jobs, one in a hospital as an RN and another with an output infusion therapy company. I don't have much free time outside of work because whenever I'm not working at the hospital, I'm on call for my IV nursing job. I make pretty good money here in CT, even though I do get taxed a considerable amount because I am single and have no dependents. A good reason for this is because of my second job which puts me well over the 6 figure mark.
The reason I'm working so much is not because I spend a lot of money but because I'm paying off my student loans while also saving up for grad school. I don't want my parents to have to pay for a single cent on me ever again. What I want to go to grad school for is still undecided - if I want to go to nurse anesthesia school, it is a 2-2.5 year program which requires you to take classes full time and is nearly impossible to work a part time job during. And if I want to go to nurse practitioner school, it would take 3 years full time (in which I could work part time because the curriculum is lighter compared to anesthesia school) or 4 years part time, in which case I would obviously work full time.
My dilemma starts with me being unhappy here in CT. Most of my friends are in NYC, LA, or Florida, and I can't help but feel like I'm missing out on some experiences that an early 20s kid should experience. For example, living in the city with your boys or going out on weekends and meeting new people, etc. There's really nothing to do here in CT, and I just feel like my "wings" of growth can't open here anymore. I have an opportunity to move out after my lease runs up around August of next year to move out to either Florida or NY. If I were to move out, I would have to give up my infusion therapy job which I must note is a low stress (although schedule-consuming) high paying job, and learn how to budget much better. Moving out would also take away the option of going to nurse anesthesia school because such a program would require me to give up working completely so I would basically be stuck with no ideal way of paying off my living expenses while I'm in school.
The plan if I were to go to nurse anesthesia school would be to move back home to my parents' house, which is in CT, and just get the 2.5 years of school out of the way and then finally move out of the state. But I would be around 27-28 years old by then and am concerned that I would have wasted through my early 20s without experiencing much except working and school. The positives of nurse anesthesia though is obviously the much bigger salary once I graduate and also a pretty flexible schedule too. And living home during the program would guarantee me little to no graduate school loans to worry about. Nurse practitioners also make a decent amount of money but not really close to anesthetists.
So Coli, what advice would you give me / what do you think I should do? Stick through this "blah" phase of my life so I could come out 3 years from now after nurse anesthesia school and start living my life then? Or should I start living my life now, move to a major city, work full time, go to school part time (for an occupation with less pay), and just learn to budget a lot better?
The reason I'm working so much is not because I spend a lot of money but because I'm paying off my student loans while also saving up for grad school. I don't want my parents to have to pay for a single cent on me ever again. What I want to go to grad school for is still undecided - if I want to go to nurse anesthesia school, it is a 2-2.5 year program which requires you to take classes full time and is nearly impossible to work a part time job during. And if I want to go to nurse practitioner school, it would take 3 years full time (in which I could work part time because the curriculum is lighter compared to anesthesia school) or 4 years part time, in which case I would obviously work full time.
My dilemma starts with me being unhappy here in CT. Most of my friends are in NYC, LA, or Florida, and I can't help but feel like I'm missing out on some experiences that an early 20s kid should experience. For example, living in the city with your boys or going out on weekends and meeting new people, etc. There's really nothing to do here in CT, and I just feel like my "wings" of growth can't open here anymore. I have an opportunity to move out after my lease runs up around August of next year to move out to either Florida or NY. If I were to move out, I would have to give up my infusion therapy job which I must note is a low stress (although schedule-consuming) high paying job, and learn how to budget much better. Moving out would also take away the option of going to nurse anesthesia school because such a program would require me to give up working completely so I would basically be stuck with no ideal way of paying off my living expenses while I'm in school.
The plan if I were to go to nurse anesthesia school would be to move back home to my parents' house, which is in CT, and just get the 2.5 years of school out of the way and then finally move out of the state. But I would be around 27-28 years old by then and am concerned that I would have wasted through my early 20s without experiencing much except working and school. The positives of nurse anesthesia though is obviously the much bigger salary once I graduate and also a pretty flexible schedule too. And living home during the program would guarantee me little to no graduate school loans to worry about. Nurse practitioners also make a decent amount of money but not really close to anesthetists.
So Coli, what advice would you give me / what do you think I should do? Stick through this "blah" phase of my life so I could come out 3 years from now after nurse anesthesia school and start living my life then? Or should I start living my life now, move to a major city, work full time, go to school part time (for an occupation with less pay), and just learn to budget a lot better?
breh im 25 years old and just started nursing school imma finish when im 29 when im done...i was a respiratory therapist and i too was working and being in school all of my 20's
,why cuz it will better my life
really breh im in nursing school in nyc and i want to move somewhere else