So I used to be an english education major and changed my degree to zoology. Everyone has been pushing this whole MS thing down my throat and I don't know if I want that. I started working in a lab with a bunch of grad students and they hate it. None of them even know why they're there. They just went on to get their masters because that's what they thought they should do. And working in the lab has shown me that I don't want to be doing that for another 3 years or possibly 7 if I went on to get my PhD.

I took one of those tests that tell you what type of career you should have and every time it told me that I need a job that makes me feel like I'm making a difference everyday. My bf rationalized that going into research IS making a difference and I realize that but I want to do something that makes me feel it everyday. Like nursing, teaching or something along those lines.

I shadowed at a couple vets offices, did the surgeries and such and that's really not for me for several reasons. I think I would be a good doctor but I'm not really cut out for the MCAT and don't want to have to wait until I'm 30 to settle down and start a family.

I guess everyone makes it seem like education, and going as far as possible should be my top priority but in the past couple years it's shifted. Now my priorities are moving towards settling down and having children here in a few years and everything else wont let me do that. But I feel like, if I graduate with my BS in Zoology then do something totally different....what have the past 5 years been for? Did I just waste all that money when I could have been going for something else?

I don't even know what I CAN do with a BS in Zoology? Ugh. I just feel like I don't fit in anywhere. I don't fit in with the masters kids, the pre-med or pre-vet people or anything. I don't know where I should go after this. And I don't want to go on to my MS just because I think thats the only option, then waste more money and more time and then ending up with something I don't even want.

My bf said he would support me no matter what my decision was. I just feel like if I totally changed my path and decided "yes, I do want to be a nurse" then my whole family would say "then what have we been cosigning on all these loans for? why do you have such an outrageous student loan payment for something you could have done in 2 years?"