COLLEGE

Right now I am a Certified Nursing Assistant at a nursing home. I'm going to a community college to get my Registered Nurse Degree. Now that I'm in the field I see how badly treated and unappreciated nurses are. I'm reconsidering being an RN because the schooling is terribly hard to get through and they are a lot of waiting list for classes. I just don't know what I should do go for nursing or pick  something else to do. I kind of wanted to do something in the medical field.   I just don't really know what. I'm confused I guess.

I am going to be a junior in high school and people keep asking me, "Where are you thinking about going to college?"  I simply don't know how to reply to this, and I know that I really must start seriously looking at my future.  I really would like to go to a university and graduate not only for the education and opportunities, but for the experience.  I've thought about a few places I would like to go to, but there's this whole other part of me that just wants to risk everything and be involved in something I already know I love.  Makeup.  Yes, I know it sounds silly but I have this love and obsession with makeup and hair styling and things like manicures, pedicures, and such.  I've dreamed of living in a big city becoming a successful makeup artist. My parents tell me do what makes me happy.  My friends tell me "listen to your heart."  I want to be able to have enough money and support myself and be happy when I'm older and I know that both paths can give me that, but I feel that only if I am really good I will do well with makeup and such.  I'm so confused.  What do I pursue . . . study makeup and such, or go to a university for college?

Go to college, go for the money. Have you met a "really successful" make-up artist?  You could ask them how they got there.  You can still pursue the make-up on the side. I know people who sell Arbonne and make $100,000 a year. http://www.arbonne.com/

A the beginning of the semester, I volunteered to walk a wheel-chair bound student to her next class across campus.  My next class is in the same building as hers.  This is a 10 minute walk, twice a week.  Well it has turned into to 10 minutes of "I just hate being handicapped, I'm such a burden to everyone.   Everyone would be better off if I wasn't here."  And then she starts to cry.  This is really depressing me.  It makes ME want to cry.  What do I do?

You have two choices, you can avoid her, or confront her.  Say "If you are really depressed, then you need to tell your doctor.  But I can't keep walking you to class if you are going to cry and carry on like this.  You need to cheer up and get some help, or find someone else to take you to class."

I really want to go to a good college, but my grades aren't that good.  What do I do?

Stay at home and go to community college for the first year or two.  You will be surprised at how many people you will recognize from high school.  I know doctors who started at community college.  It is NOT for losers. 

You will learn how to study, and get the basic courses out of the way.  When you transfer over to a 4-year college, the only thing that transfers is the college credits, not the grade.  Now that you have learned how to study, you get to start all over with a new GPA.

I am very jealous of how much attention my husband gets over his college education.  He is the only one in his family to go to college, and he has his master's degree.  I worked very hard in college, and got the highest GPA of anyone in the family.  But my family considers me the black sheep, because I only have my Bachelor's degree, I am the first one in 3 generations NOT to have my Masters degree.

It's too bad your family isn't more supportive.  However, realizing why you are jealous has solved half your problem.  Think about what it would take to boost your self esteem.  Maybe consider counseling.

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