Hummm, where do I begin? Guess I could explain the whole "Trying to get into LPN School" thing. About 10 years ago I got a job in a Shoe factory working out on the floor taking an hourly count of production. After about a year, a job in the Engineering Office opened up and thankfully I was selected to do the job. After working for a couple of years a new position opened up...ISO Coordinator...so I took that job, still in the Engineering office. I was really happy in that position most of the time, I mean I actually started feeling like I had a career instead of "Just a job". I had the best boss, who I still think very highly of. (Just incase you ever read this...Hi Gary!) But Gary had to quit when he was diagnosed with Cancer and so we lost our Engineer at our factory. After going through some changes in Management and such, the opportunity opened up for me to train to become the Industrial Engineer. Man, talk about an exciting and scary place to be. I had never been to college, but after working for years under Gary, I decided I like the whole Engineering thing. The factory sent me to Chicago....ME...a country girl who had never even been out of the state of Arkansas alone!!! WOW...talk about scared to death, but I did it. They rented me a car and I drove for over 11 hours one way. (guess it was cheaper on the company to do that than to fly me there) You should have seen me, I felt like one of the Beverly Hillbilly's walking into the Hilton Garden Inn, a very nice Hotel, with a Corporate Card and was able to charge everything. I was nice though, most people would have went nuts charging this and charging that, but I didn't...mainly because I was alone in the biggest city I had even been in and was not about to go exploring all by myself. Anyways, I went through a 2 week training course on MTM and got Certified. Believe me, after that whole ordeal, I felt like I could do anything and I was feeling pretty good about my future. Then, after about a year of training and promises of getting the Engineering title, it happened. One morning when I got to work, they called a big factory meeting and told us all they were going to shut down the factory within a few months. So, in September of 2009, I lost my Career. I was given severance pay for a few months and then boom...Unemployment!
So, with the factory closing and becoming a dislocated worker, I have the opportunity to go to school. You know, when you have to up and change careers and you are faced with the "what do I want to be when I grow up" feeling it is a whole different kind of scary. So, I have thought long and hard about what I want to do. I started thinking about what I always wanted to do when I was a kid and Nursing just seems to fit for me. I love helping people and I would like a career that is not going "shut down" on me like the shoe factory did. The LPN program here in town is very, very competitive and I was not picked the first go around. There were 600 of us applying for 25 positions so my hopes of getting picked the first time was very slim, but I am going to be retaking the 2 test you have to take here within a month and with any luck I will be starting LPN School in January 2011. I hope and pray.
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