Career/life change

lauren_hb

mumps wrote: »

I think you have to be working as a support worker/nursing assistant with a sponsor organisation. I don't know how easy it is to arrange. Are your placements done with your current employer?

No my placements are throughout the NHS, one in the year is based at my workplace.
It is lucky to find an organisation offering this but even so individual modules can sregthen OP chances of such a career if this is something she'd be interested in.

lauren_hb

SomeRandomGuy wrote: »

Because they aren't medicine? Aren't those professions full of enough 'failed medics' as it is?

Do you realise how incredibly disrespectful that is to people who choose those careers? I don't know one person who is a nurse simply because thget couldn't be a doctor

Johnnytwostep

lauren_hb wrote: »

Do you realise how incredibly disrespectful that is to people who choose those careers? I don't know one person who is a nurse simply because thget couldn't be a doctor

I would take what they say with a pinch of salt as they are, and i quote

"I am in similar situation, well even worse really as I have health problems, long unemployment and little work experience to offer potential employers. - not a winning mix"

not someone who can take the high ground regarding employment

SomeRandomGuy

lauren_hb wrote: »

Do you realise how incredibly disrespectful that is to people who choose those careers?

How is it disrespectful to anyone? I didn't comment on their ability to do their job, I just pointed out that it is a bit cliche for someone who fails to get into medicine to enter into allied health professional role....... pharmacy is the most obvious one I can think of.

The point I was trying to make is that do nursing because you wanted to be a doctor but couldn't isn't really as great an idea as some other posters are making out.

Johnnytwostep wrote: »

I would take what they say with a pinch of salt as they are, and i quote
"I am in similar situation, well even worse really as I have health problems, long unemployment and little work experience to offer potential employers. - not a winning mix"

not someone who can take the high ground regarding employment

Really, so my opinion is less valid because I have health problems and have been unemployed? This discussion is about OP wanting to retrain and as someone who is in a similar situation and has investigated the hurdles to doing exactly what OP is wanting to do I would have thought my opinion was just as valid as the next person.

Your only prior contribution to this particular topic seems to be to tell OP to "give up that hope" and imply OP is thick "focus on something more toward your academic level". Oh and no to mention digging through my old posts in an attempt to belittle me.

What a nice individual you are.

missbiggles1

LongTallKatie wrote: »

I am rather surprised at many of the negative comments on here from people who assume the OP can't achieve the dream they have. Is it really impossible to imagine that someone can't have a complete change of career and start from scratch, working hard to do what they really want to do regardless of how long or how much is costs!

I have many years experience of being a Careers Adviser working with adults (including those on Access courses) and I am more aware than most of how people can turn their lives around and start new, demanding careers from a low basepoint. Professionally I'm very positive and encourage most clients to work towards their aims.

However life is about the art of the possible and this is really a virtually impossible aim, however much the OP wants it. The combination of her age, the fact that she has a child, the fact that she will have a third class degree in an unrelated subject, that she has terrible results at GCSE and no science background whatsoever all combine to make this unachievable IMO.

I make that 6 individual negative points to overcome which,I feel, is at least 4 too many, and that doesn't even touch the financial side of things which would mean the OP having no income for many years and having to pay most of her own fees and childcare out of thin air.

Polarbeary

I never thought about going into medicine. ! I went into nursing happily. There is nothing wrong with being a nurse or allied healthcare professional and the professions aren't full of people who can't be doctors. I wouldn't want to be a doctor, the training is really really hard, it takes forever and there is debt and it's stressful. The OP might want to think about a different healthcare career but not because she would "fail" at medicine but because she wants to be a nurse or speech therapist or whatever

Johnnytwostep

SomeRandomGuy wrote: »

How is it disrespectful to anyone? I didn't comment on their ability to do their job, I just pointed out that it is a bit cliche for someone who fails to get into medicine to enter into allied health professional role....... pharmacy is the most obvious one I can think of.

The point I was trying to make is that do nursing because you wanted to be a doctor but couldn't isn't really as great an idea as some other posters are making out.

Really, so my opinion is less valid because I have health problems and have been unemployed? This discussion is about OP wanting to retrain and as someone who is in a similar situation and has investigated the hurdles to doing exactly what OP is wanting to do I would have thought my opinion was just as valid as the next person.

Your only prior contribution to this particular topic seems to be to tell OP to "give up that hope" and imply OP is thick "focus on something more toward your academic level". Oh and no to mention digging through my old posts in an attempt to belittle me.

What a nice individual you are.

nope i really am not.

mumps

lauren_hb wrote: »

No my placements are throughout the NHS, one in the year is based at my workplace.
It is lucky to find an organisation offering this but even so individual modules can sregthen OP chances of such a career if this is something she'd be interested in.

It sounds like a really good option if you find an organisation that offers it. Does it still take 3 years?

mumps

SomeRandomGuy wrote: »

How is it disrespectful to anyone? I didn't comment on their ability to do their job, I just pointed out that it is a bit cliche for someone who fails to get into medicine to enter into allied health professional role....... pharmacy is the most obvious one I can think of.

The point I was trying to make is that do nursing because you wanted to be a doctor but couldn't isn't really as great an idea as some other posters are making out.

Really, so my opinion is less valid because I have health problems and have been unemployed? This discussion is about OP wanting to retrain and as someone who is in a similar situation and has investigated the hurdles to doing exactly what OP is wanting to do I would have thought my opinion was just as valid as the next person.

Your only prior contribution to this particular topic seems to be to tell OP to "give up that hope" and imply OP is thick "focus on something more toward your academic level". Oh and no to mention digging through my old posts in an attempt to belittle me.

What a nice individual you are.

I would have thought the nurse practitioner role would be ideal. The nurse practitioner I see at my GP surgery is great and does much the same work as the GPs. I am sure there are differences but it isn't obvious to the lay person.

lauren_hb

mumps wrote: »

It sounds like a really good option if you find an organisation that offers it. Does it still take 3 years?

No, it takes 4 years as you have to fit your working role as a nursing assistant alongside it. It is fantastic and I'm very lucky to get a full time wage whilst studying for my degree.
It must be fairly common though as throughout West Yorkshire there was over 100 applicants last year, all who have to be supported by there organisation. I think companies are looking more to develop the staff they have now, hence my suggestion to OP to maybe consider a nursing assistant/support worker role first and see what development opportunities may be available