Today we’d like to introduce you to Destiny Garcia.
Hi Destiny, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
My dad always said, “choose a good career where you’ll make a lot of money because you love choosing the most expensive plate when we go out to eat!” As I got older and saw my mom go through nursing school herself, I thought, hey, maybe I want to be a nurse like my mom too! Well, fast forward to 2020 and boom I become a nurse and graduated right in the middle of a global pandemic. At that moment, I was like what the heck did I get myself into. How do I tell my parents who have worked so hard to get me through college that I think I chose the wrong career? I was a brand new nurse that was already burnt out in less than a year and didn’t know what to do with my life, but I knew there was something out there for me I just had to find out what it was. I always saw on social media the nurses who got all dressed up to go to work had their pretty pink offices and pretty pink scrubs and would think to myself, I want to do that! But how does a Mexican girl from a small town in Georgia get to live this “luxurious lifestyle” and have this “luxurious job”… then I met Whitney McMahon! Everyone always asks me, “how did you get so lucky and find this job as soon as you got out of RN school (ohh yeah did I forget to mention that I went back to nursing school in the middle of a pandemic while rethinking my career)!” Well, to answer that, I don’t know how I got so lucky to have someone take me under their wing, mentor me and guide me through this journey but I wouldn’t have it any other way!
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
It has not been a smooth road at all. While I was in nursing school, I was also working part-time and paying rent and bills. At 18 years old, I couldn’t just worry about making good grades in school, I had to do that and worry about not getting behind on my bills. Aside from that, when I graduated with my LPN it was right in the beginning of a pandemic no one knew anything about and on top of that, I was a brand new nurse who knew nothing about working critical care. This had a huge toll on me mentally and physically. Throughout nursing school, I always thought I had my life figured out and that I was going to become a NICU nurse and eventually become a nurse practitioner. That all quickly changed when I became so burnt out working at a hospital and long-term care in just as little as a year. I was rethinking my career choices and even considered changing my whole career path just to get out of bedside nursing.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I am an Aesthetics nurse in Dalton, GA. I specialize in all things Aesthetics from Botox to filler, laser hair removal, PDO threads, you name it! I am most proud of being one of the only Latina and Spanish-speaking injectors in the surrounding area. Dalton and the surrounding cities have a high population of Spanish speakers. Working as a nurse in the hospital and in long-term care I saw that there is a need for Spanish-speaking nurses everywhere! I was a nursing student having to translate stuff I still hadn’t been taught in school because no other nurses spoke Spanish. I am so proud to be the person that can break the barrier between the Spanish-speaking community and the Aesthetics community… Walking in to get Botox and filler is scary within itself but imagine not being able to communicate with your injector. I love that I can be that person my Spanish-speaking customers come to and ask anything about aesthetics. Nothing is better than hearing “Ayyy que bien que hablas español, tengo bien muchas preguntas!”
How do you think about happiness?
There’s two things that make me happy in this world. The first is making my family proud. My father immigrated to the United States from Mexico and my mom worked and went to college, all while raising my siblings and I. Nothing makes me happier than making them so proud with my accomplishments in life and knowing that everything they sacrificed was for something. The second thing that makes me happy is seeing my patients leave my chair with a huge smiles and loving their results. Seeing how someone glows with confidence after showing them they’re before and afters brings me so much joy and makes me know I’m exactly where I need to be!
Contact Info:
- Website: https://aesthetics-in-bloom.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/injectedbydestiny/
- Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/100083321029863/
Image Credits
Logan Kilgore, Christinacovphoto
