Mid life career change crisis!... how to take the plunge!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

What do you want to do? If you have a degree, many skills are transferable, depending on where you wanted to take it.

[Arcadia]

Could you do community nursing? Or a nurse practitioner? What about a diploma of midwifery and try to be a mchn?

Many gp surgeries employ nurses too.

My sister is an rn and the shift work sent her bonkers. There are more 9-5 jobs in nursing though. Have you contacted an agency?

[PinkPalace]

i dont want to study nurse practitioner and as a casual it is had to be signed off by a governing body to gain admission to the course anyhow.
mid is an option - although i dont want to be a midwife, but understand the importance in my current role as a paed nurse.
however i need to be available for 4 days a week rotating roster for prac for 12 months and with no childcare not an option unti both kids are at school.
gp looked into it - to be honest i think it will bore me and for the pay i could get more money in an unskilled job - its disgusting the why RN's are belittled by the gp system.
i was looking into a masters of child health nursing to get into residental kind of care centres and thats as far as i got lol!

FB - i dont know what i want to do, i have lots of "that would be fun or interesting" jobs i think about - journalism/copywriting/law/ but they are all big education commitments and not sure i am ready for full on uni all over again (on top of kids, and work etc).

and all the things i would like to do dont involve pay lol! ( ie charities, red cross international aid etc) and well.... can pick the money tree in the back yard!

[~Raven~]

When I enrolled to study in my early 20's I thought I was going be the oldest in the course, but there was quite a few in their late 30's or 40's and they were taking the plunge with a career change. Up until a couple of years ago I was in contact with one (she'd be in her late 50's now) and she was loving it!

[fionas]

This is the way I'm approaching my career change from corporate communications. I've looked at what sort of stuff I think about in my spare time, what I'm passionate about/interested in. I used to spend a lot of time on BB. Why? Because I'm interested in people's lives, interested in how people raise their kids. Also interested in education policy and issues like obesity. I'd like to make a positive difference to people's lives, especially children's lives. I'm not cut out to be a social worker so the best fit for me is social policy. I've applied to do a Masters in Social Policy Research.

What else do I spend my time doing? Real estate porn. I'm always looking at houses online. I'd love to renovate houses but that requires a lot of capital and I don't want to take that financial risk right now. But if the social policy research doesn't eventuate, then I figure I will do a short course in real estate and become a real estate agent. Yes, I know this is a world apart from social policy but I'm a Gemini.

Apart from waffling on about myself, my real point is to say ... what d'you spend your spare time thinking about - that will tell you what your passions are. Hone your passions into a career and I reckon you can't go wrong.

And if I can start a new career (at the bottom) with study at nearly 43, then anyone can. You only live once.

[PinkPalace]

Thanks girls... What do I think about in my spare time....
I think about decorating organizing and designing my house, I think about organizing things for people ie I love it when dh emails and says I need you to find out the. Best way to do something... The planning organizing and presenting it.

But I don't know what that means lOl