skyhigh7

Hello everyone I am currently applying to nursing schools. I'm 36 years old and my previous field was sales. I'm so tired of sales and never having a life. Mon-fri hours working from 9-6pm or 9-7pm and never having time for myself, my family or vacations. I know I should consider myself lucky not working weekends or holidays but there has to be more to life than this. The only time I have ever been truly happy is when I have a career that enables me to help others obviously a decent income is also important but when I can combine the two I find more pleasure. I adore kids and believe pediatrics, nicu or mother baby can be the ideal job for me, but I did volunteer in the hospital and I have seen the working conditions which scares me. It's more the way the nurses treat eachother that scares me. In one way I look at this as a challenge to develop a thicker skin but the last thing I want is to hate my co-workers and not get along with them. I have spoken to a few nurses and they all seem to hate there jobs. Can someone please shed me some light?! Going to nursing school is probably one of the hardest things I will ever encounter. My question is will it pay off and is anyone out there Happy?