Today marks yet another important day in my life. Here goes the story:
It’s finals week and I’m caught up thinking about how well I did on the Cardiovascular unit and how I’m going to do on this upcoming final. The same reoccuring thought goes through my head for the millionth time this year, “I’ve got to keep that 4.0 so that I can get accepted into the Nursing program right away.” So anywho, I went to class later tonight and got my test back. Hauling ass worked for me again. I got 93 both on the lab and the lecture. By doing so, I’ve pretty much sealed the deal for the class, coming into the final with a nice 94%. The final will actually be a lot easier than all the previous exams have been, so I’m not too worried about losing that A.
After studying lab today, I came home at about 10 and grubbed out as usual. I went upstairs to transfer important pictures to the external, filed as, “MOST VALUABLE PICTURES.” Get it? Anyways, my Dad and I were looking through pictures of my his 6,500 mile motorcycle trip. While he sat there going through his pictures, I went off thinking about something else. I don’t quite remember exactly what brought it up, but I was thinking about my future career as an RN and what else I would specialize in besides Case Management and Dialysis. I was thinking about how fun it would be to be an OR Nurse. Now that I think about it, maybe that’s actually what brought it up. It was probably the fact that I was thinking about the GI tract, having studied it tonight, and how awesome it would be to see that and all the entrails and organs of a person in real life. I don’t know why I was thinking about Anatomy when we were looking at pictures, but that’s just where my mind was at the time. So we were looking through the pictures, and by the time he got to the ones of him with my uncle in New York, I asked him,
“Hey what do you think about being an OR Nurse? I bet it would be a fun job, wouldn’t it? Just being apart of all the action sounds fun. You’re right there with the surgeons, dressed just like them, passing the tools to them. I mean, you get to see all the insides of a real person and you get to partake in the surgery in a sense.”
He goes, “You know, your aunt Layla is actually an OR Nurse. But see the thing is, Nurse Anesthetists make a hell of a lot more money. You know how much they make? They make about $160,000 a year.”
That, my friends, are the magical numbers that have changed my life forever. It’s funny because that’s a little more than what some Doctors make already. Along with my Real Estate endeavors (COMMERCIAL properties too and not just houses, unlike my pop), I’m going to be a very wealthy person. My Dad went on and explained in depth on what an ideal plan would probably be later after I get my BSN. Even though this is looking pretty far ahead already, there’s nothing wrong with it. Put it this way.. A lot of people I know already are still shaky about what they want to do with their lives. I’ve already got my life planned ahead of me. In fact, I already knew a looong time ago that some where down the line I would want to go for CRNA, but now it’s actually official that I want to do it as soon as I can.
“The median expected salary for a typical Certified Nurse Anesthetist in the United States is $145,216.” (taken from salary.com) It says TYPICAL, by the way..
So there you have it. This is definitely one of those blogs that I have to show my kids later on. :)
