UMich or RU?

T26E4
Sat, 16 Apr 2016 03:41:40 +0000

Not as a nurse anesthetist.

To have such a great RU scholarship, you’re obviously extremely talented. But nursing isn’t a field where your pedigree matters much simply b/c while there’s a steady stream of new nursing grads, the market swallows all of them up w/o blinking. You’ll be vying for jobs alongside Michigan State, Grand Valley, Bowling Green and Baker College nursing program grads – none of you, if you’ve graduated with any decent grades and clinicals, will have any problems getting placed.

Let your parents have a better retirement. Take the RU spot and never look back. If in doubt, ask nurses and doctors you know. Ask them if their kid were in your situation, what they would do.

My good friend, was a house husband when he and his wife had 2 kids. His career had stalled during the recession, his wife was a lawyer. When the kids got a little older, he applied to Baker College for nursing. Got some very fortunate clinical assignments now earns over $100K annually working less than 40 hrs per week as a surgical theater nurse, still able to be a main parent for the kids (his wife’s hours still are terrible).