Ugh. I’ve been in this eternal battle.Ugh. I’ve been in this eternal battle. I’ve been in my career as a RT for 9 years. I’m turning 31 in March. The past 3 years I’ve had this tug in my Heart to go back to nursing school. I work with nurses daily and I love them. Something changed after I had my kids and I want to be an L&D RN because it literally changed my life with the support they gave me as a new mom. Working in critical care now is just emotionally getting more difficult. Here’s my struggle. We are trying to pay off debt. I have like 15k in credit cards, back taxes we are paying on, 5K in student loans and like 15-20k from husbands student loans. I want to go back to school and do this. But I don’t want to get into deeper debt when I’m trying to get out. The pay will Be better for sure, but my debt will Be higher. Also, we want to buy a new house in the next 3yrs. I’m just struggling to focus and actually do this. A lot of my RN friends have told me they did the same thing in their 30s and it’s not too late. It’s hard for like 5 years but it’s all worth it since there is more options as a RN. Doing it now is good because my kids are babies and I won’t be missing everything if I did it when they were older. What would you guys do?
☰