At 60, a former engineer leaves behind online work to retrain as a nursing associate
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Paula Cocozza
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Summary
Nick Dowling, at age 60, left his decades-long career in engineering and manufacturing to pursue nursing through an apprenticeship program. After falling out of love with his job when it moved online, he is now training to become a registered nursing associate. His placements have ranged from general practice to psychiatric units and urgent treatment centres, working 12-hour shifts at £14 an hour. This career change was inspired partly by a summer job he had as a young man working with dementia patients in Cape Cod nearly 40 years earlier.
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I fell out of love with my job when it went online.
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