We told you that nursing schools are raking in applications these days as people look for a recession-proof new career.

WDBO's Joe Ruble has found one woman with a special reason to start over.

Paulette Dussault is cancer survivor.

Healed at Florida Hospital at a time when she learned her marketing job was being cut.

A very spritual person. Paulette saw a sign...

"When I lost my position at work I was packing up my desk. And as I did I saw a paperweight. So I look at the paperweight and it said 'Embracing the past, Shaping the future, Florida Hospital."

"It was the last thing I packed away. And I said okay, God, this must be where I'm going."

She has been a volunteer, spending time with patients who have no one else to check on them.

After a while, she felt nursing was her calling.

"I had no idea, first of all, the shortage of nurses and really actually the great benefits and pay scale of nursing."

Paulette says while the pay is nice, she wants to do something she can be passionate about.

"I'm glad I made the decision based on what I consider a true calling."