I don't have a BSN, yet, but I'm going back in August as I'm contracted to go back within 6 months of hire. Already have my financial aid package and everything. It's all online, I'll be done in 18 months.

It's not really feasible to do anything in my field when I'm already licensed. No one will hire me to do anything else; I'm overqualified. I can't be licensed and go back to working as a tech. No hospital would let me do that. And since I've been in healthcare for so long, I don't have enough experience to do anything else which would pay me anything close to a living wage. Not that I want to, I mean. I really like the wage I'm earning now. I'm not considering not working as a nurse. That would be very detrimental to the future of my career, as I need the experience.

And thanks for the nurses week recognition. That's more than my employer said to me. (Truly...we don't get acknowledged much. We were supposed to get free frozen yogurt in the cafeteria today, but they didn't have enough so they scrapped it.)