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Oh god, thank you soooo so much for all the replies. You guys have definitely played a role in lifting the heavy weight off my shoulders. I'm still working out my plan but reading these posts has helped cleared some of the air for me. Thank you so much for your advices and opinions. I will definitely consider each and every one of them. But keep the suggestions coming, cause I enjoy hearing what you guys think.

Hey guys! New here. Was introduced to this forum from another individual at another forum lol Thought maybe you guys could help me more since it's more focused on nursing. I'm facing a huge dilemma right now and am totally stressed out about deciding on what to do with my life. For the past 2 years, I've been taking Arts/Education to become a teacher, but I realized that wasn't my forte so I decided to apply to nursing (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) in December. I got accepted in February so now I've got 3 more months to go before I start my first year of nursing. I was extremely stoked and super excited about starting my first year till a couple of days ago; I started registering for classes and I realized how much time and money it was going to take. Not only that, I applied for student funding. Applying for my student loans made me realize how much debt I was already in. If I were to continue down the path of Nursing, it'd take 4 years (considering that I pass all my classes and don't have to retake anything) and each year would cost about $8,000 - $9,000 which would approximately total about $36,000 in loans, adding another $17k to that for the past 2 years. Watching the dollar signs build up like that made me feel nauseated and it got me thinking, "what if I don't do good in nursing? What if nursing is too hard? I'd be wasting another 4 years of my life and $40K" so now I'm totally on the fence. I don't know if nursing is really something I'd be able to handle. So I started researching another program that my college offers and it appealed to me; medical assisting. The program runs for 10 months, and if all goes well I could land a job right after I'm done school. It costs about $8,000 but again, it's only for 10 months, so it's not going to build up like nursing would. Thing is though, Medical Assisting doesn't assure me a job right after I'm done school like nursing would. And I don't think the pay is that great, compared to nursing. (but that makes sense, since nursing is so much harder, the higher pay compensates for that) Again, I'm on the fence about this one too. Maybe there are some people on this forum that has taken a medical assisting program, or has/had a medical assistant job that could give me a more thorough idea about it? But my main concern right now is, which direction to go. I'm not the type that handles well under pressure. I'm not a quick thinker when I'm on my feet. I don't think I'd be able to handle the stress. But despite those reasons, I've always wanted to do something in the medical field. Pursuing a doctor's career is much too ambitious for me, and I don't think I'd be able to keep up the marks for it. But like I said, I would enjoy working in/with the medical field. The medical assisting program sounds really appealing, but in the long run, would it be a good decision? I would love your input and greatly appreciate whatever advise you can give me. I'm sorry for rambling so much, and I probably don't make much sense considering the fact that it's almost 1AM here where I live. But I thank you guys for actually (if you did) read through all this and helping me. I'm opened to all kinds of opinion. Give me what you think. Tell me your experiences, from school to out in the work force. - sundayspaper