Should I go back to work or back to school after year off with preg/baby?
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Sounds to me like you already have the skills you need to stay in the medical field. I would suggest looking for a job. There is always the possibility of taking part-time or night courses if they are available. \n\nYou need to build up your earning power. If you think you can make A LOT more $$$ by upgrading your education than do so otherwise re-enter the workforce and resume earning money.\n\nGood luck and congrats on the baby! :P
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o.k. basically, what you do in this situation is YOUR decision.  this is school, not work, so you being pregnant has no bearing on whether you're "allowed" to do this internship or not, unless the program you are involved in contains some kind of verbage about interns who are pregnant, which i doubt it does unless you are teaching at a private school (they can be tricky about this).\n\nthink about a few things first, though.  what if you go into labor early???  would you have earned enough credit to not have to do the internship again??  if not, then are you willing to do it all over again later?? what if the dr. wants you on a few weeks of bed rest???  you don't know this until it happens.\ndue dates are guesses....my sister's first pregnancy was great, except when she started losing amniotic fluid about 3 weeks before her due date and they ahd to induce her labor.  \n\nyou also need to discuss this with your doctor.  ask about the distance.  if dr. approves, then your insurance SHOULD(check on this) cover birth at an out of network hospital.  that's how my insurance works.  \n\nyou don't need a doctor's note.  many women work right up to the day they go into labor.  there's no guarantees in pregnancy, so a note isn't going to reassure anyone.  if it makes you feel better, though, then go for it.\n\nalso, think about how you will be feeling the last month or so of your pregnancy.  that's the point where you just wnat the baby to come out and you are really swollen and kind of miserable.  this isn't true for everyone, but it's typical.  you're going to be on your feet all day without many breaks in the day.\n\nif i were in your position, i would probably wait to do the internship after baby.  that way i know i can be in prime condition, i won't have so many worries about the situation in general and it will be smooth sailing.\n\ngood luck on what you decide!  and just know that no one can stop you from doing this unless dr. says it's too far.  it would be discrimination.
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If you are asking us this question you already know the answer.  You are asking for confirmation.  Yes you need to take some time off.  It sounds like you have been very very busy and as all moms know we need to take a break and just be a mom!\nYou will finish your schooling and your kids will be happy and better yet you will be happy as well.\n\nSmile!!
569688
It's always good to have the education. As a Mother of two I would probably do the same, go to College but if I feel it's right and I can afford it I would only work part-time to be with my kids.
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Go for the education.   Jobs are only temporary.  They may want you now, but you could be layed off or fired tomorrow if things don't work out or if the market turns.   Education is something you will always have.\n\nA good company will know that education is best for you AND THEM.  They will encourage you to finish the education.
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You have 2 children.  When you consider a career you should consider how it effects them.  Your career should be focused around your family.  What works for your kids?  Once the kids are grown and gone, you can do what ever else you want.  Find something that has some flexability too it.  You need to take a day off because one of the kids is sick or in the school play, what happens if your empoyeer disaproves?  You need to be there for the kids first.  Job second.  Like I said once they are grown and gone, do anything you like.\n\nI quit a great paying job because it was impossible to raise my kids while working shift work.  Their mom saw more of them than I did and she only had them every other weekend.  So I quite.  I had no other jobs up my sleeve.  Just turned in my 2 weeks notice and started hitting the doors of other companies that my offer better hours.  I lost a almost half of my pay.  We may have been poor but at least dad was home when needed.  Now they are older and more independant.  So I have moved back up the pay scale just a little.  Once they are gone I'll go back to working more hours and in places that are going to yield better pay.  In the mean time however I have worked at home and done very well.  I'm getting better at it all the time.  By the time the kids move out I'll be doing what I love and when i love to do it.  I doubt I'l ever really go "back to work".  Good luck in your efforts to support your family.  Finding a balance between supporting them and being home for them is hard when you have to do it solo.
189509
fly anyway and go home if that's what you truely want.  trust me, i know- it's not alright to be alone while having a baby. be with family or real friends.  otherwise fly someone you know out to you.
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The smart move would be for you take up the job and still continue school as a part time student.  From life experience thou, I have learned that education is more important than even getting a job.  So I would suggest you go back and finish school coz this will present an opportunity for you to get even a greater paying job.  Beside imagine this, were the insurance company to downsize, who would go first?
996298
Well I'm a stay-at-home mom.  I miss working, I had a great job in the Navy that I really enjoyed but my son is more important.  I don't feel like I contribute as much because I don't earn a paycheck.  I know that what I'm doing is contributing (cleaning, cooking, organizing, paying bills, watching our son so we don't need daycare) but I still fell guilty.  I was going to start watching other children so as to earn money but I'm pregnant again so that's out the window (no one wants you to watch their baby when you're only going be able to do it for a short time).  It works for our family though and I cherish the fact that my son doesn't spend most of his waking hours with some stranger.
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I was a single parent who went back to college while working full time. I did have a local support system. However, many colleges that offer night classes also offer child care. You can check with the college that you are considering to see if they offer this. \n\nAnother option, if you could locate others who want to return to college and don't have sitters, you could possibly provide child care for each other if your classes aren't on the same nights or at the same times. You could post a notice at the college.\n\nGetting my degree was the best thing I could have done. Good luck!
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You will have to go  to a college near you and sign up. Take the pre nursing classes some of these can be on line. Then you can go part time and be home with your baby and then towards the end you will have to be gone for clinicls but if you go part time it will take you awhile so the baby may be is school.
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Start the job first, see how much you really like it.  If it's not all that awesome or is not offering you the income level you were expecting, start up grad school.  I took a year off in between undergrad and grad and it was a much needed break from school, even though I was working full-time during that year.  Being out of school is nice.  The only downside I can see to not starting grad studies immediately is that when you go back to school after having been off, it is a little disorienting.  I had some people tell me this and I didn't believe them.  But when I started grad school, I was a little off sync because I had not done anything like that for a year.  But it doesn't take long to get back into the swing of things.
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my mom did over 20 years ago.  This is the worst mistake she ever did according to her.  Yeah it was great raising us and she actually did a wonderful job.  Today however she realised that she we are all grown up and she is all alone with nothing to do.  She is trying to get her carrier back but its proofing a lot difficult.  My advice to you would be to do it but have some part time work particularly at work.  Volunteer in orgnazation and go back to school.  This way when the kids are all grown up,  you would have to butt into their business in order for you to have something to do.  You will resume you career pefectly.  But remember the final decision lies with you.
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I love my job, but at the same time if I could choose between working or just going to school and concentrating on my education, believe me I would pick being a kid again.  You should appreciate the fact that you dont have to work right now, because the day will come where you wont have a choice.  But if you really insist on doing something, why dont you try volunteer work, or maybe some sports activities, or maybe a library job.\nTry something you can do at your leisure with no worries and no stress.
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As a homeschool graduate myself, I know you all are going through a lot.  It's hard to keep things together, especially if you are living on one income, like my family did.  I just want to encourage you to keep up the fight- for whatever reason you are homeschooling.  I wouldn't trade my homeschooled years for anything.  As far as homeschooling and working a full-time job, please, do whatever you can as far as putting your family on a budget, cutting back on superfluous spending and so forth, before you go out and get another job.  Part of the beauty of homeschooling is being able to spend those critical years with your children- and if you're working full-time, it's very difficult to do everything that needs to be done, let alone find time for any extracurricular activity.  The last thing you want is for you family to struggle because you don't have enough time for each other (hubby included). Let your younger children started doing chores around the house.  Your older children can help out there, too.  My mom worked cleaning houses and apartment complexes while my siblings and I were growing up, and we helped her do and earned a little money of our own on the side.  All of us worked at some sort of job outside the home by the time we were 14 years of age- some people may think that was awful that we had to do that, but some of the best lessons I ever learned, I learned on the job.  It's also a great way to teach good work ethics, honesty, reliability, dedication, etc, by EXAMPLE.  It's a better teacher than any lecture.  Best wishes to you as you continue your journey. :)
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Absolutely do not worry about wasting the doctor's time. You seem very kind, but when it comes to your child, the doctor would want you to come back. That is why the doctors are there, to help you. I would take her back anyway, before you sent her back to school.
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I think it would be beneficial.  The kids would have more learning time and be better prepared for the real world and careers where you don't get 3 months off out of the year, you work year round.