an annoying thing I am running into is that a lot of interesting nursing jobs want a bachelor's degree in nursing, which I do not have
getting a bachelor's in nursing is almost entirely non-clinical, it's just writing a bunch of suckup essays about Leadership In Nursing while pouring the price of a decent car into a hole in the ground
and the only thing I hate more than that, which is when they give you tests with questions like "define a Culture Of Wellness" and you have to have memorized the bold words in the textbook because if you answer based on your regular human understanding of the words "culture" and "wellness" you won't produce the magic keyphrases
(a Culture of Wellness is when we have signs on the elevators implying that if you use them you are being fat on purporse)
probably I should just suck it up and do this (once I am employed and have funding), it only takes about a year and a half and you can do it all online. and god knows I can crap out long-winded essays on demand, or indeed with no demand at all. but I just really fucking hate what pure credentialism it is. there is absolutely no real life skill a bachelor's degree nurse can do that I can't
I was in hospital management during Delta and Omicron and vaccine rollout but I'm not a Leader until I pay someone to read some god damn essays about it
