My sister-in-law has decided that she doesn’t want to be a nurse anymore.

Granted, she didn’t have an easy time of it.  She had a lot of experience working in assisted living centers, and was having a hard time getting out of it.  She was pretty sick of changing old people’s diapers and lifting them in and out of bed.

I don’t blame her, in some respects.  It sounds like a pretty miserable job.  However, I personally thought it would be good to try to get into a different niche in the industry.  She likes children, so maybe working in a pediatrician’s office would have appealed to her.  Working in a hospital also would have been an improvement.

If she had decided to pursue another facet of her career, there are ways she could have gotten around her concentration of experience in elder care.  For example, there are many schools offering health care training programs that could have helped her break into another niche in the industry.  Sanford Brown Fenton offers several good programs that she might have been interested in.

School could help her break into another career, too, though.  She has considered cosmetology as an option.  Personally, though, I think she’d prefer a little more of a traditional office job, especially considering the really hard work she has done for the last 10 years.  There are many business administration programs and cosmetology programs around, so whatever she decides, she’ll have options!

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