Hello all,

To make a very long and complicated story short, I will be a Jr in college this year and had a baby last summer. Having a baby made me reevaluate my life and my career plans as my original plans require traveling, the possibility of low slary for a while, and possibly job instability. These things just seem way too risky now as it is important to me to help provide for my family. I have never really considered another career before so I've been lost trying to figure out what to pursue, but recently I have had a friend who is in the medical field start talking to me about nursing. I have become extremely excited about it, I THINK it would be a great for me-- I have a passion for helping people, and I have always been interested in medicine and have spent a lot of time researching my own or family health problems. But I am worried that because it hasn't really been a lifelong dream of mine that maybe I'm trying to make myself think I would be happier in it than I really would be? I also am worried about my lack of science and math background... I was admittedly lazy and getting into trouble in highschool, and I didn't even get through Biology. But with that being said, I have done great in college so far and have SO much more motivation to do great now that I have a baby that I want to help provide for and give him a reason to respect and admire me, and I have a fiance and family near by who are very supportive of me and will help me take care of our son. I am definitely willing to work hard, and this summer I am planning on essentially relearning highschool Biology and math so that I can hopefully catch myself back up to where I need to be before I start taking my college math and science courses this fall.

Does anyone have any thoughts for me? Or advice for how I can truly figure out if this is my new caling in life?

Thank you so much. :-)

Jessica