Is it the actual work? It it that it is time consuming? Any certain specific classes? The financial burden? Stress it adds to the family? Or is it just everything together? I had a friend (who had to drop out for financial reasons) tell me that nursing school really wasn't that hard, but trying to make ends meet working and going to school full time as a single mother with two kids slowly widdled away from her study time in turn affecting her grades. She ended up having to quit when she lost her car and almost her house. She said that if she had the money and did not have to work it would be even easier. I am working right now but, fortunately when I start nursing I will not have to work, and my husband and I do not have kids...or a mortgage to worry about and I get mostly A's.(hopefully that will continue in nursing school:uhoh21: ) Do you think this give me an advantage or is it plain hard no matter what situation your in?