the stuff i have been doing as a hospice volunteer has been incredibly satisfying. it is an amazing institution. i wasnt sure if it would get to me, but so far it hasnt bothered me. i guess i am kind philosophical about death. it isnt something that scares me. i can see the smiles that i bring, both w my dog, and w my presence. w my time.
but then again, i am a volunteer. i have little investment it this. if i decided i couldnt take it, i could leave and it wouldnt hurt the bottom line.
and people dont generally take their anger out on the nice grey haired lady w the funny dog. (tho it has happened!)
i think there are a lot of great midlevel jobs in the medical sector, a lot of which pay good money because of supply and demand.
ot is a good one, i think. your patients will hate you, i would guess, as i sure have hated my trips through pt/ot. but i think that the rewards are concrete. seeing someone getting better, walking again, getting back to their lives.
you dont get dragged into a lot of the really sad stuff, although there is some of that, too.
i think nurses any more need that bsrn, and if you werent broke and tired enough when you finish that, there are some really good jobs in nursing specialities. i have a friend who did very well as a surgical nurse, who went on to be a nurse anesthetist. she is making loooooong dough. she loves her job, too.
funny thing was that she couldnt really get the money she wanted here in chicago, because the supply was too good. the family moved to kalamazoo, where she was offered $30k more, and housing is dirt cheap.
another good but hard program is nuclear medicine techs. long, hard, but good money for a pretty easy job, as these things go.
thinking about you as a teacher, tho, really makes me smile. i can see you surrounded by a couple dozen 5 yo's. lol. what a picture in my mind.
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