After a long job search, this 45-year-old is ditching corporate for nursing school—she wishes she'd done it earlier
Layden didn't immediately decide to pursue nursing when she lost her job. She had prior experience in product management and looked for more of the same. But she says she wasn't seeing results: She estimates she sent more than 250 applications over more than a year.
- ▪Layden didn't immediately decide to pursue nursing when she lost her job.
- ▪She had prior experience in product management and looked for more of the same.
- ▪But she says she wasn't seeing results: She estimates she sent more than 250 applications over more than a year.
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| Publication time | Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:25:01 GMT |
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Layden didn't immediately decide to pursue nursing when she lost her job. She had prior experience in product management and looked for more of the same. But she says she wasn't seeing results: She estimates she sent more than 250 applications over more than a year. Of those, she moved forward in the hiring process on roughly 25, she says. "I remember in the beginning thinking, if I don't have a job in six months, something is wrong," she says. "And then six months came."She cast a wider net to include project and program management roles as well and at one point even tried two services that used AI to apply to roles on her behalf, she says.
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