31 years old with no career?

Question

I'm a 31 year old woman with kids and a fiance. I work at the school district in my city, I've always been interested in Nursing. I want to go back to school for registered nurse (4 years at my city college). Am I too old to go to school for that long. I'm afraid that if I start school at my age, when I graduate no one will hire me because of my age. Any advice? Thanks

Answer 1

Too Old?? No Way Hun!!! One of my sister's is in her forty's and she went back to school to get a degree. She didn't let age stop her.....If it is something you want,you should not let age stop you,either!!! GO FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

I am only 22 but I say NO WAY! Go ahead! I plan on going as soon as my kids get in school and I will be 27 or 28 then. I am not sure about where you live but I know here you can get your LPN in two years. You could always start with that .. get a job and continue going to school to get your RN. That way (if you are at a hospital or nursing home for a LPN they are likely to promote you to RN when you get your full degree.) Some nursing homes will even pay for you to go get your LPN! :) Good luck! And you know they say ... 40 is the new 30.... really not even considered "old" anymore.....

Answer 3

I understand your concerns because I was your age when I went back to school to finish my degree. I never regretted it and the key is, you will look back and be glad you didn't wait longer.

I mean, you need a career, right? You gotta start sometime, right? If you wait, you're only getting older.

Early and mid-30s is young enough where you still look (and are) youthful and energetic. And nurses are in such demand that no one is going to turn you down for being too old.

If you wanted to get into the music industry or something very youth-oriented, you might have something to worry about, but with nursing you have no worries.

Good luck!

Answer 4

Post secondary school is just that- post secondary. It's open to anyone who have finished highschool. Although the majority of students in these schools are young, there will be a minority of adults there. You will be fine if you enroll in a school and since you are going into nursing, there won't be a problem with getting hired because of your age.

Good luck!

Answer 5

How does sunny California sound? Get that degree, and I'll hire you on the spot. I'm talking Riverside County, but Orange and Los Angeles Counties also seem to have a severe nursing shortage.

Answer 6

If you look at what's happening today to businesses. The young people are being looked over because young people today are not loyal, faithful nor on time. So bosses are looking for the employee who will advance to higher grounds.

Otherwise start your own business, start off going to the library reading the grant books. There are grants to start businesses and Pay off debts. There are also books that will show you how to write a grant.

If you want to go to school. Go it's never to late. The best reverge is success. But you don't have to go to school to make it.

Use your experience in what you know and build

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I hope you become pumped for your children's sake. They are worth the effort

Answer 7

i know exactly how u feel im one year behinde im 20 now ill finish college when im 24 and i feel old as hell cause everyone is fisnishing it at age of 23 but think about it this way you would ratha be 35 with a college degree than being 35 with nothing!
and u can finish it earlier take summer courses you might be able to finish it when ur 34 , good luck!

Answer 8

Nope.....At around 28 0.5 all of us experiencesa day of commerce to establish the subsequent era. extra useful to do it now and stick on your wish than rueing no longer doing it 40 years later. probably you have have been given a purely good blending already foryou. I did restoration and portray on a women folk homestead some years in the previous. It became as quickly as a passable task. She became an amusement attorney, the completed song human beings in the city knew her and greeted her enthusiastically. i'm encouraging you to do the songwriting (I did no longer stick to that well-known direction for myself and now ask your self regardless of if this is a sign to me additionally). She additionally made an extremely good residing and generally had somewhat some loose time. Write a song approximately destiny......i do no longer forget the words of Whittier in his poem Maud Muller......"god pity them each and each and pity us fascinated in the saddest words of tongue or pen are those......it may desire to were." could desire to your spirits instruction manual you, luckily.

Answer 9

nursing are always accept worldwide.. if u can get a decent one at yr place .. being a registered nurse u can get employment overseas ... the market rate is also high because of the high demand. nurses are always need everywhere.. gd luck

Answer 10

35 being too old to be a nurse??? no way, the nurses at my doctors office are as old as my grandmother...i would say to go ahead and go back to school to better yourself.... good luck!