Pandemic redundancy prompted Coventry College pupil midwife to pursue her dream profession.
In March 2020 Samantha Hayes flew again from New York exhausted however proud to be jet-setting throughout the globe in a cabin crew position she thought was her dream job
Unbeknown to her it will be the final time she touched down at Gatwick Airport as an airline worker because the Covid pandemic noticed the UK authorities floor all non-essential flights firstly of the primary lockdown.
As Samantha’s furlough advanced into redundancy, she thought her world had fallen aside however with time to spare she rediscovered the midwifery books she’d ordered as a 17-year-old.
She purchased them after being impressed by the TV present One Born Each Minute however her thirst for journey noticed her pursue a unique path.
Greater than 10 years later the pandemic prompted Samantha, from Sutton Coldfield, to pursue her calling and now she is about to finish the first-year of her Midwifery BSc (Hons) course at Coventry College.
She mentioned: ‘I’d gone from having this wonderful job and flying all over the world to turning 30 and residing within the bed room that I used to be in once I was 16 years previous.
‘I went to go and provides blood and my dad mentioned, ‘why don’t you turn into a nurse?’.
‘I’d by no means thought of nursing however once I was 17 my first ever Amazon order was some midwifery books, I’d watched One Born Each Minute and thought that the midwives have been wonderful.
‘I felt too younger to pursue it again then but it surely felt like I had been given one other probability, so I believed I’d strive an entry course and see the way it goes.
A part of Samantha’s cabin crew position concerned coaching to assist somebody give delivery on a aircraft and he or she says the individuals expertise she developed within the air are actually aiding her midwifery journey.
She mentioned: ‘When persons are in want on a aircraft, they appear to cabin crew, so you must have good individuals expertise. If you end up in a room giving delivery at 3am you take a look at midwives, so that you want to have the ability to calm individuals.
‘It’s a tremendous factor to be a part of, it’s a privilege to be within the room and be capable to assist when somebody provides delivery.
“My recommendation to anybody who has been in an identical place is that when it’s all gone there isn’t a higher time to flip this unhappy factor into one thing life altering.
‘It has already modified your life, so go and make it higher.
‘I pushed myself, labored a full-time job in retail and studied the entry course full-time to get the chance to turn into a pupil midwife. Now I’m on the trail to my dream job, I’ve been capable of purchase a home with my boyfriend and we’ve a golden retriever referred to as Wilson.
‘With out the pandemic I wouldn’t be on this wonderful place.’