Would nursing be a good career for me ?

[Essie49]

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question but i really wanted advice from nurses/nursing students.

I am a freshman at a very good engineering school. I am majoring in biomedical engineering and I am pre-med. Recently, I've been thinking that I would make a much better nurse than a doctor or an engineer. I have good grades, ~3.7 GPA, but I don't think that I want to spend my life in school, at a desk or in a lab. Unfortunately, my school does not have a nursing program so this is a very difficult decision.

I love taking care of people and when someone is upset or hurt, I do everything that I can to make them feel better, even if they are not someone that I particularly like. Is this what makes a good nurse?

I am also considering nursing because it will provide me with a little more financial and personal freedom than being a doctor would (i.e. not tied to my loans, not missing out on most of my twenties/family). Is this true?

The one thing that I am very concerned about nursing is that some people look down on it, especially doctors and I have heard from many sources that nurses are treated like dirt.

I am an engineering student because I enjoy problem solving, math and the way the body works, does being a nurse involve any problem solving or is it mostly repetitive?

I am very confused so if anyone could answer some of my questions, it would be greatly appreciated :).