Doing school completely alone?
Has anyone done this program without any help? I have no family to fall back on for finances. Living alone, no kids, and paying rent, bills, food, etc all on my own.
Currently thinking of pursuing this field after being a surgical tech for 8 years (OB, plastics, and urology). This would require me to either:
Do a program that is local. find a weekend only night job where I’m at if the clinical hours are “flexible”. The program I’m looking at has 6:00am listed as a start date for clinical but I get off at 7:30am.
Do a distance learning program that would require me to move out of state and try to find the same job for the same pay in order to do clinicals at one of their affiliate sites. This program would be more “flexible” in that all the classes are online, so I wouldn’t have to worry about falling asleep in a classroom at 12p. I just need to see what their schedule is for the clinical sites if it would work for me getting off at 7:30am
If anyone has done this program by themselves, please give me tips! I want to make the leap. The time is going to pass either way, and I would rather work towards something that I find more interesting and comfortable. I cannot keep scrubbing into “retirement” but not even being able to retire.