I passed my big test today after studying last night until one in the morning. I should of started studying about a month ago but I've always been a slacker. So now I am an official CNA (Certified Nurses Assistant) woo, wow, sounds so professional. The test was the easiest test I have ever taken; compared to the countless quizzes and tests they made us take in the program to prepare for the real thing.

The only thing I was worried about was the skills part of the test. This is where you pull three cards from a pile of forty and on the card is a skill that you have to perform in front of the person giving the test where they watch you like a hawk. Over the last couple of days I started psyching myself out over this, enough where I couldn't even sleep last night. To my surprise the skills part of the test was the easiest part of the test, everyone in the class passed and I think I cracked my book open once the whole three months.

If you live in San Diego and want to go through the nurse assistant training for free. I highly recommend the GOLDEN HILL HEALTH CAREERS ACADEMY. Located at: 2469 BROADWAY, SAN DIEGO, CA 92102. Just give them a call at: Phone: (619) 696-6053. The program is three months and is free through ROP. Honestly you can�t beat that.

Over the last few months I've several people that have paid $10,000 for the exact same training. It was hard to tell these students from nursing schools like Concorde College, Maric College, Remington College, and UEI that I got better training for free. All I can say is if your really interested in becoming a Nurse Assistant take your time and look into it, since there are a lot of places that will do it for free and some nursing homes will actually pay you minimum wage to do the program and I heard those ones only take three weeks.

So now that I have my CNA it's off to school for two years to become a registered Nurse (RN.) I'm just not looking forward to Microbiology and Anatomy even though I've known every part of the female body since I was twelve, if you know what mean ;-) So it shouldn't be that hard. My plan it to work in the ER a few days a week (part time) and enjoy the time off. Worse comes to worse I�ll have to work full time (three � 12 hour shifts.)

I really don't want to be a nurse full time, I love taking care of people and all, but my true love my graphic design company. So the nursing is just something to fall back on just incase if times start getting tuff, since the graphic design industry fluctuates like every other industry. The good thing about being an RN is you never have to worry about job security like I did when I was working computers. I still regret to this day going to college to become a network administrator. There are no jobs in computers especially with all the jobs going over seas to India.

It's funny how you see all this advertisement on TV and the radio about getting computer training when in reality it is one of the worst markets to be in. I remember going through my Cisco training thinking I would be making all this money, now most of the companies are using smaller and smarter routers that self configure themselves.

All I can say is if your looking for a new career that has job security, stay away from computers and looking to becoming an RN (Starting $25 and hour) here in San Diego. Or become a dental hygienist (who starts at $375 a day, 8 hour shifts, part time.) I would do the dental hygiene but it sounds a little boring and repetitive.

oblivion77 @ 01:31 AM PST