I want to know what career can I take

Hi Barbara. Hope I can help. If you have relatively few years of work until you retire it probably makes sense to stay employed and not look for career changes at this point. Usually I'd suggest finding what really motivates you and going for it. But as I experienced as an older worker, there is in fact discrimination toward them and job shifts/career changes are much harder. So, my recommendation is to stick with it.

HOWEVER.........maybe you can consider addressing what it is with your job that wears you down and eliminate those parts as best you can . How to do that? I'd recommend investigating many more sources like this one on managing stress in the work place: https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/work-stress. There are lots of ways people address job situations you may be experiencing. And you may likely find some that work for you.

Good luck. :)

Barbara,

Depending on your personal circumstances, you may qualify for assistance from the Workforce Solutions/Texas Workforce Commission office near you. Should you talk to them, I encourage you NOT to say that you simply don't WANT to do nursing anymore. That's because if you have marketable skills, but don't want to use them, they are less likely to want to help you. So you would want to say that the work is too taxing on your body, or emotionally, or whatever.

What can you do? What do you want to do? Take a hard look at your "transferable skills." What are you good at?

1. customer service. clearly!
2. learning, retaining, and applying complex material
3. medical terminology

How are your computer skills? What kind of income do you need to make? All of this factors in. You could possibly do utilization review for insurance companies. Or medical coding and billing. Be a patient sitter (but those might be volunteer positions). Be a patient transporter?

If you want to go in a totally different direction, look at things that require customer service skills or learning complex materials. Understand it will be hard. That is because people are always changing jobs, and it is so easy to apply on line. So you will always be up against a lot of people. "they" also aren't crazy about us older folks. So don't get discouraged! Keep at it!

To improve your likelihood of success, remember to tailor the resume to the positions you are applying for. READ the job announcements, and tweak the resume to show you have that experience. That's what everyone else does. Don't make the resume so long and wordy that they don't want to read it.

Stay positive!

Kim