Jun 7 • General discussion
I spent 13 years as a bedside nurse.
I left with nothing but exhaustion and a terrifying idea.
ER. ICU transport. Cath lab. Travel nursing. Med-surg. I did it all.
For 13 years I showed up night shifts, 12-hour stretches, codes, trauma bays. I missed important birthdays, holidays and weekends. I gave everything I had to that work.
And then one day my body just said no. I just felt numb. It felt like I was on autopilot.
Burnout doesn't announce itself. It creeps in quietly until you're driving to a shift and realizing you have nothing left to give. That was me. Completely empty.
The problem was I had no idea what came next. I wasn't a "tech person." I didn't have a computer science degree. I wasn't good at math in school. Every time I looked at data science I thought the same thing:
"I'm not smart enough for this."
I taught myself anyway. While terrified. While people around me thought I was making a mistake. I figured it out, one course, one concept, one late night at a time.
I became a data scientist. Then I moved into AI.
Today I work from home. I have the freedom to work and take care of my kids at the same time. I stopped paying for daycare. I have more flexibility. I don't work weekends! OR Holidays!
Here's what I know now that I wish someone had told me then: everything nursing taught you — critical thinking, pattern recognition, working under pressure, communicating across teams — is exactly what tech companies are desperate for. You are not starting over. You are translating.
That's what The Ex-Nurse Movement is about. I built the roadmap I wish existed when I was sitting in a hospital parking lot wondering if there was another way.
There is. And you don't have to figure it out alone. Let's work together, hand in hand. One step at a time :)
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