Honestly my mother wanted to be a nurse and she had babies young instead. She always told me about nursing, even to the point of handing me silver ware as if I was in surgery. She always saw it as a positive, I would always be able to support myself and could work anywhere.
As I think back, I would have become a writer if left to my own devices.
My high school offered a early entry nursing program so I went into that. I mean, come on, when you are 16 there is a tendancy to go where you are directed. At least from some direction, not always good, not always bad.
After quiting the early entry program I got married and had babies but was always drawn back to nursing. I even tried the business world for a while.
So here I am, 50 years old and have been in nursing for 27 years, 19 of them as an R.N., primarily in ICU or ER.
I call it a calling, an art. I can't imagine doing anything else.