career path

I have been dreaming of becoming a nurse since i can remember. i did everything to make this dream a reality. many times i wondered if this is really what God wants me to be. Many times i failed in school or got mediocre grades. i can never remember a time where i had to memorize a topic and presented myself to school with the knowledge that i knew i should have. I admitted that there were times i cheated just to make it, though I was never proud of it. When the time came when my name on the graduation list was visible, i cried. and that time i didn't know the reason why. Maybe because i knew my parents would be proud of me or maybe because i knew that i deserved to graduate so that i can do the things ive always wanted, to become a nurse..then i took the board exam and fortunately, i passed!

Now i really am a nurse! and the ironic part is that i am not working as a nurse..i am working in a call center. yes you heard me right. call center. I answer calls from customers. i tend to the customers needs. I'm not caring for patients when i know i should be. i have graduated in a course which should be saving peoples lives, not answering peoples query and i am not happy with that.

The reason for this is because nurses are not financially compensated. i mean, nurses basically do all the things in the hospitals. Yes, the doctors diagnose the patient but they rarely see them. I bow to all doctors, of course. And i really do especially if they have brains like Dr. Gregory House. Now i am saying this because many nurses like me are working in different fields. i understand the overpopulation of nurses in the country and that hospitals can not accommodate all of us. But if you try to check all of these establishments, you can still see wards that only have a single nurse for the entire shift especially those government hospitals. There are even communities which have none. and if only these unemployed nurses can be disseminated, then people can have their health care provider (given the RIGHT amount of salary of course).
Nurses (like me) decides to have their change of career because as much as we want to work In the place where we should be working, we also need the finances. Majority of the registered nurses in the country today took up this course because they want to work abroad, still for the money. dollar that is. the main point here is that we work because we need the money... that justifies everything...yes we work in the job that we want but human work for rewards.

I'm still hoping to land in a job that i want. tend to the sick, comfort the family, teach them what to do and so on. if only these things can be change.