My Plans!! ..... For Now.
Over the last two years or so, my plans for the future have changed a lot. For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to be in the medical field. I honeslt cant remember ever thinking otherwise. My mom said as a child I was always playing doctor with my stuffed animals, covering them in bandaids and taking their temperatures. So in high school when it finally came time to start deciding what I was going to do for the rest of my life I knew I was making the right decision about going to medical. I have always had a huge heart for little kids and even teaching special needs children. At first I HATED the thought of being a nurse. Everyone always told me, "Sarah you would be a great nurse," and I always said "NO." I thought nurses were just the runts that had to do all the dirty work while the doctors and PA's ran the show and took credit. So I decided I would go to PA school. Soon after when I actually started looking at all the classes that they had to take I decided, "maybe I can just be a teacher for special needs in elementary school level." Then when I saw how much money teachers make I decided "well..... nursing school it is." So I entered my freshman year of college as a pre-nursing student and started taking those classes. About a year and a half in, I got really discouraged when I started struggling in one of my chemistry classes and I could not take the Anatomy class that I needed because they were all full. So I started doubting myself and thinking maybe that this was not the right path for me. So I started exploring my options, when I discovered Pharm. Sales I thought maybe I had finally found the right path. I could still be involved with the medical field, but be on the outside in a way. So I switched my major to business, setting me even more behind. Taking one semester of business classes made me realize I HATED them and that I would switch back to nursing and transfer schools. So here I am at GGC back in pre nursing classes when I should be almost done with my first semester of nursing school. My ultimate goal for life after college would be working at CHOA as a pediatric oncology nurse.
Life Outside Work
Other than working and going to school for probably the rest of my life, I also can NOT wait to have a family and be a wife and mom. I have always wanted children early on and being a mother is something I cant wait to experience. I would like to have at least two or three kids. I think I want to have kids early on so that I can live to see more of their life and be around to watch grandchildren grow up (maybe even some great grands?) Jesse and I are getting married next year but I am going to wait a few years until I graduate school so that we can financially support having a family. Idealy I would like to live somewhere around where I live right now for at least a few years, however; I have always wanted to live out of state for at least a year just to experience new things and meet new people. So if I choose to do that, Jesse and I have talked about moving to one of the surrounding states while we have toddlers or at least while they are still young so that they make friends in school.
UPDATE!
I applied for a radiation therapy program at a school in Atlanta. There were over 70 applications and they accepted 16, lucky me I happened to be one of the 16!!! So, I will be transferring to Cambridge College in May to start my classes to become a radiation therapist.