Why I do it this way
The short version of a decision I still think about.
"I didn't trade a hard thing for an easy one."
Worst, because nursing was draining — and marketing is draining too. I didn't leave one exhausting thing for a restful one. I traded one kind of pressure for another.
Best, because I found something in marketing I never expected to love this much: the metrics, the not-knowing whether a strategy will actually work. That uncertainty pulls me in every time.
But I never really left healthcare behind. What I loved about nursing — directly making someone's life better — I wasn't willing to give that up either. So the decision was never really nursing versus marketing. It was refusing to choose, and building something at the intersection of both instead.