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Wow thanks for all that info everyone, it seems I got everything I needed. I had no idea about graduates having a hard time finding jobs, I actually thought that since people say hospitals have nursing shortages that jobs were easy to find. I also didn't know that you get very little financial aid for a 2nd bachelors... I am going to have to speak to the fin aid about that to make sure. I am pretty much broke, and grants are basically what is getting me through college. With out them I wouldn't even be here! But thing is, I don't know if I want to switch right now, since I am soooo close to graduating. After this semester, I will have one more left then I am done, which is why I have been thinking about this. Also, I am currently in the process of trying to get an internship teaching art to children, I am actually waiting for info from my professor on that right now, but more than likely I will get something. If I can't get a job teaching art though, thing is, I don't see any reason to be an artist who makes money off their art... it's just NOT stable. Oh, if it makes any difference, I live in Florida and I go to USF. They seem to have a pretty good nursing program, they even have their own hospital on campus. I will be attending an info session for nursing and I will ask questions about all of this. As far as doing nursing for a stable career and salary... I honestly don't know how I would handle nursing, as I know very little about what nurses really do (but I have been reading some posts on this site a bit to get an idea). I will hopefully be given enough info on it at my schools info session, but I am trying not to be discouraged just yet. Who knows, it may actually be something I enjoy. But then again, this will all depend on how much I enjoy being an "artist" and how appealing nursing is to me once I find out what it is really about. Anyway, thanks again to everyone for all the info. (btw litchi, it is so odd how similar our situation is!)

I'm currently a studio art major, I have one year left till I get my degree... but recently I have found that I am less and less becoming interested in making ART a career. I love art, I really do, but as far as a career, I think that is too much. I am young, this is my first degree, and I think it may have been a bad choice... maybe... not sure. I am thinking that after I am done with this degree, I will skip out on getting my masters and instead go into nursing. It seems so much more safe than Art. Plus, going for nursing will not require me to move away from my hometown, while going for my masters will. I hate to make my art degree useless though ya know? I don't want to make a bad choice. I didn't know where to ask this, so I figured those in the actual degree of nursing can tell me whether nursing is a good choice for some one who was originally an art student. I'm just looking for some more info so I can make a better choice. Thanks.