Single_Mom

Thank you everyone for your honest opinions. Although I wanted to get into nursing when I started school in 2005 I have never thought about going back to school since I graduated until THIS job where I am sworn at, the manager is drunk all the time, and where when people get angry they throw things around. I am the type of person who gets something in my mind and just does it without thinking it through. I am in such a good position financially and am home with my kids everyday and I am not willing right now to give that up. Maybe when my oldest is done high school, or at least close to it, I will consider it again but for now I am the only stable thing in my children's world and they need me.

I guess I should have mentioned that I am in Canada and that I have to take the 3.5 year Bachelor program if I want to be an RN. Our LPN program is 2 years but it only offered an hour away from where I live so this would be my only option.

I really need advice from someone who is not family and doesn't feel like they need to tell me what I want to hear. I am a 30 year old single mom with two boys ages 10 and 8. We have been on our own for 7 years and it has been great but it has been a struggle. I decided to go back to school in 2005 and graduated with an accounting degree in 2009. Needless to say, 2 years later the thought of accounting makes me want to cry and so I am working as an adminsitrative assistant for $14/hour and just can't imagine doing this for the 35 years that I have left before retirement. I really want to go back to school and take the Bachelor of Nursing program because it is something that I always wanted to do I guess I just didn't believe in myself enough. I am second guessing it though because my children have already had to deal with me going to school and having to make sacrifices financially and I don't know if I want to put them through that again. We are doing pretty well financially and I am scared that they will look back at their childhood and think that it could have been better. I guess another issue I am having is trying to tell myself that this is what is best for them when my oldest will already be 14 and I will have cheated him out of the great life that I wanted him to have. I know that this all probably sounds ridiculous but all I want is to be the best mom that I can be but at the same time do something that is going to make me happy. I would be greatful for any insights or words of wisdom anyone can offer. Thank you!!