This happens in Europe.

As previously said, I’m a nurse.

Before working as a nurse I majored in History and Geography and have a M.Ed. for both subjects. These are subjects I always enjoyed and I always enjoyed explaining history to those interested in it but I couldn’t deal with teenagers acting like teenagers do, and parents outright lying to me, and burned out. After that and moving elsewhere I majored in nursing and started working at different hospitals.

I am now in a better financial situation and I’m planning my way out of bedside: It’s either studying a B.Sc. to become a Physician Assistant or studying a B.Ed. to become a Nurse Educator.

Nurse Educator would be the shorter way due to my M.Ed. and students wouldn’t be bratty teenagers, I hope. It would be a better life than my current one, a safe choice, a predictable life. I don’t want more than that. I enjoyed explaining history, I enjoy explaining things to patients, I would enjoy teaching nursing to nursing students who are there not because they must, like in high school, but because they actually want.

Physician Assistant is also an interesting field: I’d simply study more comprehensively what I now know superficially, I would handle things I’m currently doing unofficially in an official capacity, it’s also a safe bachelor because people are always getting sick, I wouldn’t be a nurse anymore and wouldn’t have to bear the brunt of the physical work I now do. I wouldn’t have to retire early like so many nurses do because they’re physically broken, it would be a more mental job. I like explaining to patients what a procedure means for them, what risks may be present, what happens afterwards, how organs work… because so many doctors simply do but won’t explain why and what they do and that means the patient get angry and nurses are the ones paying for it.

Either way, I hope to leave behind the incredible, insufferable cattiness that permeates nursing, the backstabbing, the gossip over stupid stuff and 5 people yelling at you contradictory orders at the same time. I’m too old for that stuff.

But I fear I’ll have to deal with the same kind of childish people I now have to deal with, because even some doctors are simply older children, not adults.

Another question here is if any of these 2 bachelors opens me doors to jobs where I don’t have to deal with immature coworkers, or if any of those bachelors allows me to choose what kind of people I work with: I know of good, competent coworkers who refuse to work with certain doctors because they are simply not good, to the point of changing hospitals, I know others who simply don’t want to work at hospitals so they seek better opportunities elsewhere. I want that kind of freedom, to choose the kind of people I work with. Is either of these bachelors the way to achieve that?

I’m also scared of continuing my education because there is an absolute nurse shortage and no wonder why, it’s a complete shit job nobody sane wants to do, because it breaks you. But this shortage means I’ll never be out of a job, whereas if I pursue any of those bachelors, I may end up unemployed.

Anything you write would help me. Thank you.