<p>I got a BSN mostly because my mother wanted me to. She was a single parent (Dad died when I was eleven) who struggled to support us. She wanted me to get a degree that would be marketable anywhere and provide a good enough income to take care of myself no matter what. </p>
<p>So, I did it but I never really liked it. I sometimes cried in the car on the way to work (3rd shift in a big city hospital) because I dreaded going in. I did it long enough for DH and I to save up enough money to buy a house. In the meantime, I was preg. w/ S1.
Quit my hospital job just before he was born and have never used my nursing degree since then.</p>
<p>Nursing school is hard. If she doesn’t really want to do it, I wouldn’t force her.</p>