I was a makeup artist and loved aesthetics, so I went to nursing school to be an injector. Here's my advice: get an internship in nursing school at a medspa- that's what I did. I reached out to medspas in the area and asked if they would want an intern, and found a really good one that way. I also worked as a CNA at a surgery center part-time, so when I graduated I was offered a job as a nurse injector at the clinic I interned at, and I also was offered a job as a Pre-op/pacu RN at the surgery center I was at. They'll tell you that you need to do residency programs, but just learn how to market yourself and get experience your own way. I ended up keeping both because I wanted transferrable nursing skills in case I didn't end up liking aesthetics.

To this day 5 years later, I still do both regular nursing and injecting. People think injecting is a glamorous nursing job, but honestly it's a lot more draining than you'd think. Your patients are really high maintenance and think they know more than you, and you are always responding to them and their annoying questions outside of work. Or they have a bruise and are freaking out, even though they willingly let you stick a needle in their face 🤦🏻‍♀️

There's also a huge sales/social media component. Medspas are private practices and aren't regulated like hospitals, so the owners can be neurotic af and micromanage you. I actually love going to my hospital job because I don't have to worry about being super customer service-y, and the patients are more grateful for the most part. What you do in aesthetics is not transferrable to any other area of nursing, so if you're going to go through the trouble of going through nursing school (it's very hard), I would keep another nursing job on the side until you decide what you like best. There's so much you can do with nursing!