Jeff Nelson knew it was time for a change.
He was drifting from desk job to desk job after a serious
on-the-job injury forced him to medically resign as a deputy sheriff. These
positions kept him nominally in the criminal justice field in which he’d been
working for two decades, but they weren’t fulfilling.
“I didn’t like the
desk work,” Nelson said. “I wasn’t doing what I had gotten into criminal
justice to do. I wanted to be hands on, and I wanted to be helping people.”
Then came a conversation with a representative of the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs, who suggested the disabled military veteran
take advantage of the program Veteran Readiness and Employment, formerly called
Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment. Nelson learned that, with certain
requirements met, the program would pay for him to go back to school to train
in a new field.
His choice? Nursing at The University of Toledo.
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Cheers!
Donna
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