It all started like this.
I am starting next year at College Montmorency a nursing program, but I am actually working at McDonald's where I have the opportunity to be a manager.
Choice 1: I choose to go to College Montmorency and not be a manager at McDonald's
Choice 2: I decide to continue my studies while being a manager at McDonald's.
Choice 3: I drop out of school and begin my career at McDonald's.
Scene 1.
I am in my second year of technique and my results are great. I am getting straight A's, but one of my teachers has a flirtation behavior with me.
Choice 1: I denounce this teacher to the school direction.
Choice 2: I keep it a secret to keep my high grades in every subject.
Choice 3: I engage a flirtation behavior with this teacher because I find him cute.
Scene 2.
When I denounced the teacher, I was informed that I was the third person to complain about this behavior. He got fired and created a vacant position. This story made me realize that maybe I wanted to become a nursing teacher in college.
Choice 1: I continue my nursing studies with the goal of becoming a nursing teacher.
Choice 2: I stop my nursing studies because this story disconcerted me too much.
Scene 3.
I finally graduated from College Montmorency after all my hard work. I am now going to university but I know if I should go to McGill College or to Université de Montréal.Choice 1: I chose to go to McGill College.
Choice 2: I chose to go to Université de Montréal.
Scene 4.
I went to McGill College to a great nursing program, but I had too much difficulty and it was too hard to study in English.
Start again: I made the wrong choice of college. I regret my decision.
Scene 5.
I went at Université de Montréal and graduated from there. I am now starting my master's degree at this same school. I hope to achieve my goals and become a nursing teacher.Start again: I am proud of everything I accomplished but I wonder what could I have done different to make it even better.
Scene 6.
When I stopped my studies, I started to think about saving money and travelling which has always been my dream. I hoped that this would make me forget what had happened with my teacher.Choice 1: With all the money I saved, I decided to take a sabbatical year and travel around the world.
Choice 2: After a long talk with my entourage, I felt like going back to school would be my best option.
Scene 7.
Travelling around the world was really my best option. I met extraordinary people who made me realize the important things in life and how I am lucky for everything I have.Start again: After this sabbatical year, I went back to college to continue my nursing studies.
Scene 8.
Three years later, I have finally graduated and I am a certified nurse.Start again: I found a job in the United States in one of the best hospitals of the country. I hope to meet someone and begin a family soon.
Scene 9.
I kept the secret of the flirtation behavior until I graduated. I was often thinking about it but it passed. When I graduated, two hospitals offered me a job as a nurse but there were two different specialties: pediatrics or general surgery. I didn't know which one to choose because they were both great opportunities.
Choice 1: I choose to take the job in pediatrics.
Choice 2: I choose to take the job in general surgery.
Scene 10.
Pediatrics was great. I loved children and the health care you give to them is way more rewarding than with the adults or elder people, until one day I had a patient that was very sick and diagnosed with cancer. I soon discovered that the father of my patient was the teacher that always had this flirtation behavior with me.
Choice 1: I tell my supervisor that I don't want to be involved in this case.
Choice 2: I do as if I didn't recognize the teacher and continue treating my patient.
Scene 11.
My supervisor was very mad at me for denying a big case like this one. She even started talking behind my back about it with some colleagues.
Start again: I should of never denied this case, even worse I should have chosen general surgery.
Scene 12.
This was the worst idea, the father of my patient went further this time. He sexually harassed me. What should I do?
Start again: I feel like I'm back where I started, this was not the good choice for me.
Scene 13.
I think general surgery is the best career option for me. There is an inconvenient though, because my boyfriend wants to build a family and for this to happen I would have to give up my job and find another one with less working hours.Choice 1: I find another job and start to have a family life.
Choice 2: I tell my boyfriend that I prefer keeping my job for the moment.
Scene 14.
When I left my job in general surgery, I couldn't find another employment. I got kicked out of my apartment and now I have to move back to my parents house, my boyfriend changed his mind and doesn't want to have a family anymore.
Start again: I feel like I am living my worst nightmare. McDonald's was maybe a better choice from the beginning.
Scene 15.
My boyfriend left me when I decided to keep my job instead. Happily, I just got promoted and getting richer by the minute.
Start again: I love earning all this money, this was the best choice I could have made.
Scene 16.
When I engaged the flirtation behavior with my teacher, it was nice because I learned he was only 24 years old. He invited me to a date, I don't know what I should respond.Choice 1: I don't go on a date with him.
Choice 2: I go on a date with him.
Scene 17.
When I told him I didn't want to go on a date, he told me it was alright but actually he got very mean. He started humiliating me in class and my grades started to go down.
Choice 1: I go to the school direction to tell them about the situation.
Choice 2: I don't do anything about it.
Scene 18.
When I explained the situation to the school direction, they fired the teacher but also put a note in my school folder to indicate this situation. That note made me miss many job opportunities.
Start again: I should of never respond to his flirtation, I regret it.
Scene 19.
I didn't tell nobody about all of this, but after a semester of torture, I didn't pass this teacher's course, I had to take it again and the worst was, he was the only one giving the course.
Start again: I just want to go to a different school. I hate my life at this moment.
Scene 20.
When I decided to go on a date with him, it was magical because he treated me like a princess. After a while, students from my class started noticing our flirtation behavior and we were scared because the consequences could be severe.Choice 1: I choose to stop this relationship.
Choice 2: I continue acting like I was with no worries of the consequences.
Scene 21.
When I stopped the relationship, I was sad at first but then I had the chance to concentrate on my grades which was an excellent idea.Start again: I graduated with straight A's. I feel good about all of this hard work.
Scene 22.
The moment I decided to be careless about the consequences was when it all went wrong. I got expelled from the school and no other nursing programs wanted to take me.
Start again: I have no future at this point. I feel like I should of done things differently.
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Scene 23.
At first, keeping my management job while going to school was easy. As time went by, my nursing program got harder because of all the internships and the exams. I needed money to pay my bills. What should I do?Choice 1: I get an easier job that pays better.
Choice 2: I go to school part-time and extend my studies.
Choice 3: I don't change anything and keep working hard.
Scene 24.
I started searching for a job in a hospital to keep my environment around nursing. A hospital offered me a job as a patient attendant. This job payed better than my management job, though it was harder physically. After a month working at the hospital, I felt back pains and it was keeping me awake at night.
Choice 1: I continue my job even though my back hurts.
Choice 2: I go see a doctor about my back pains.
Scene 25.
I continued working at the hospital with my back pains, and even though it hurt, my grades were going good and everything in my life was great..until, one day, a patient was very aggressive and beat me. All the staff in the hospital was going crazy. After this incident, I had to get hospitalized. What should I do with school now?
Choice 1: I take a leave of absence at school.
Choice 2: I escape from the hospital to go to school.
Scene 26.
I took a leave of absence from school while I was at the hospital. I was hospitalized for a month and realized with the patient care the nurses gave to me that I didn't wish to become a nurse anymore.
Start again: I want to change my field of study, I don't like nursing. Can I move back a year from now?
Scene 27.
I escaped from the hospital, but I didn't know that I had some internal bleeding.
Start again: I died in the taxi going back home. Why did I choose to become a nurse at all?
Scene 28.
When I went to see the doctor about these back pains I had, he did some tests and diagnosed me with a spinal cancer. I am in shock because he explained to me that my tumor has been growing for two months now. What will I do now?
Choice 1: I choose to do chemotherapy.
Choice 2: I choose to believe in miracles, and live the last moments of my life with no medical help.
Scene 29.
Chemotherapy was a very bad choice, because it didn't cure me. I was very unhealthy and about a year later, I died. Everyone in my entourage is sad and my parents are weak and mentally sick.
Start again: I wish I would of never accepted this job. I want to dream about my life where no choice had to be made.
Scene 30.
With my family's and friend's support, I was very happy. My parents brought me to Italy, where I have always dreamed to travel. I am getting better.Start again: Miracles do really happen. My doctor just announced to me that I was going to be fine. What should my life be now?
Scene 31.
Going to school part-time is very hard. The taxes from the government are higher so I have to work even more to pay my bills. Also, insurance is not the same when you are a part-time student. I think I am leading myself to a burnout. Should I consult a psychologist?
Choice 1: I decide to consult a psychologist.
Choice 2: I decide to keep the problems to myself and keep on going.
Scene 32.
I consulted a psychologist. He sent me home with antidepressant pills. He didn't even explain why he gave it to me. Should I trust that he is a professional or should I not take these pills?Choice 1: I don't trust my psychologist.
Choice 2: I take the pills and stop worrying.
Scene 33.
My situation is getting unhealthier as the time goes by. I want to take these pills, but I also want it to be simple with no use of medication. I wish to be a nurse right away with no exams and no bills to pay between that time.
Start again: Why can't life be more simple?
Scene 34.
The antidepressant pills that my psychologist gave to me helped me a lot. It has been two years and I am finally graduating and I am not in debt.
Start again: I love nursing. These pills are magic, everyone should take them.
Scene 35.
I shouldn't have keep my problems to myself. I think I am about to emotionally and psychologically explode. I just screamed on my teacher running out of the classroom. Should I let the teacher think I am a bad student or go explain the situation?
Choice 1: I go back to see my teacher.
Choice 2: I let the teacher think I am a bad student.
Scene 36.
When I got back to my teacher, she understood every part of my situation. She reassured me and told me to take it one step at a time. I followed her suggestions.
Start again: I have finally graduated from my nursing program. I know now we shouldn't stress over decisions in our life and take it easy!
Scene 37.
My teacher thought for a long time that I was an ungrateful student. At the end of the semester, she highly recommend to me to abandon nursing because she thought it wasn't for me.
Start again: I followed my teacher's directions and left the nursing program.
Scene 38.
Going to school with my management job got harder. Even though I kept on going, my hard work didn't pay off as I expected. I have an opportunity that can help me but I don't know if I should take it. One of my colleagues is proposing that he loans me a big amount of money in order to pay my bills and to pay that loan after I graduated. Should I take this opportunity?
Choice 1: I take the loan from my colleague.
Choice 2: I don't take this opportunity.
Scene 39.
This loan that I took from my colleague to pay my bills wasn't a good idea. I just graduated and he wants his money for the end of the month. I don't have a job yet, how can I pay the money that I owe?
Choice 1: I do illegal jobs to pay back that money.
Choice 2: I tell him I can't give back the money yet and that it will have to wait.
Scene 40.
I decided to fraud some cellphones to pay back my colleague the fastest I could, but I got caught. I was arrested for fraud and got a year of incarceration and a 250,000$ fine.
Start again: My life is worst than ever, why did I take this loan?
Scene 41.
My colleague did not accept my answer. Later that night, I was scared for my life because I knew he was coming for me.
Start again: I should of never took that loan. What did I do?
Scene 42.
I didn't take this opportunity and now I am doing great. I finally got less hours at my job and I am keeping up my high grades. I am very proud of my decisions.
Start again: I am soon going to be a nurse. I feel great.
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