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Welcome to My World: Life’s Trials Couldn’t Keep Me From Nursing

Nurse.com

I graduated from college in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education, yet the only job I could find was as a substitute teacher making $4 an hour. Just as I graduated, the power company was sold, and the new owners decided that anyone who wasn’t 100% healthy would be put on disability retirement. This included me.