Help!Give me some reasons why I should pursue nursing and not take my jobs promotion!

Hello,

I am in Florida and I have just got accepted into an LPN school. Its great, 9-3, be home in time to pick up my kid from school. Its only 1 year. The federal goverment is giving me $5000 towards tutition. CA gov. is MAY approve me for about $8000 benefits to use as cost of living since my husbands job relocated us here to Florida.

In california i was an administrative assistant for about 10 years. I hated it! I hate sitting at a desk and doing office work and scheduling appts for people. All though its SUPER easy and i can play on the internet all day long if i wanted. My last job i loved, it was more technical with the IT help desk but I had to quit because of the move. We moved to Florida and assistants here get paid about $9 an hour!! I was getting $18 without a degree in CA!!! And great benfits.

I was able to stay home for a while but I need to help out with the bills and save some money and I wanted a job that had some fulfillment in it. I thought of nursing because I love people and the money, i thought, was good and the flexible schedules. I want to work 3/12 to have more time at home with my family.

So the utility company here in Central Florida has offered me a job as a helpdesk administrator, still administrative work but its starting up a help desk which i have done and they want me to not go to nursing school and do this. They may offer me about $40,000.

My question is.....

Do LPN's in Central Florida ever reach that money in there career? I see jobs posted starting at around $13.00!!!

Do LPN's here in Central Florida have 3/12 jobs??? I dont want an 8-5.

What are the downfalls of being an LPN. (the guy that offered me the job said his mom was a nurse and its not a uplifting type of job to take because of all the sick peolpe.... well i want to help the sick people!)

I am stuck on if i should take advantage of the grants I am getting and take a year and become a nurse or if I should go for the money at a normal 8-5 job, have my kids in daycare, forget the grant money and just sit a desk all my life but making decent money.

Help, any advice!!???

thanks for reading!

-Clarissa