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

Help!Give me some reasons why I should pursue nursing and not take my jobs promotion!
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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 approving me for about $8000 benefits to use as cost of living since my husbands job relocated us here to Florida. My school costs 13,000 so I can get a small loan to cover the rest.

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 benefits.

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 $42,000 and within in 1 year $45,000.

My question is.....

Do LPN's inFlorida 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.

Can LPN's have flexible schedules like 3/12s or part time or 4 days a week. I really want to be home with my kids more and work less.

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. And we could use the money right now!

Help, any advice!!???

thanks for reading!

-Clarissa