One thing I am doing now to feel a sense of integrity when I reach my late adulthood is furthering my education and taking the steps necessary to change my career field. After 30 years in the information technology field, I am looking forward to making a change to the medical field.
Since my mid-teens, I have worked with machines to further the aims of the companies I have worked for. It has been satisfying for me because the challenges and puzzles I had to solve, and the enjoyment I derived from that. But as time passed, and I entered my mid-forties, I started to see a kind of complacency and dissatisfaction beginning to develop within myself.
Fueled from boredom and a lack of meaningful challenges, and a growing lack of patience with some of my clients, I felt at odds with what I was doing in my day to day work life and started looking for something different to do as a career. I was still helping people, but to what end? What was the long-reaching impact of my actions and how could I do more to help others? …show more content…
So one day I decided to train and become a registered nurse.
My little sister had gone down the path a few years earlier with my encouragement and was successful both educationally and professionally in this endeavor. For me, as it was for her, this was an 180-degree shift from what I was doing and what I had studied. It was not going to be easy, but also not
Since my mid-teens, I have worked with machines to further the aims of the companies I have worked for. It has been satisfying for me because the challenges and puzzles I had to solve, and the enjoyment I derived from that. But as time passed, and I entered my mid-forties, I started to see a kind of complacency and dissatisfaction beginning to develop within myself.
Fueled from boredom and a lack of meaningful challenges, and a growing lack of patience with some of my clients, I felt at odds with what I was doing in my day to day work life and started looking for something different to do as a career. I was still helping people, but to what end? What was the long-reaching impact of my actions and how could I do more to help others? …show more content…
So one day I decided to train and become a registered nurse.
My little sister had gone down the path a few years earlier with my encouragement and was successful both educationally and professionally in this endeavor. For me, as it was for her, this was an 180-degree shift from what I was doing and what I had studied. It was not going to be easy, but also not