Just recently bought a house with my partner. I currently work full time as a secretary for the NHS. My partner also works full time but is self-employed. I’ve been feeling stuck in a rut for a long time now. I don’t feel like my job is a ‘career’ as such, just somewhere I ended up. I’ve worked alongside nurses for years and has always been something that’s interested me and I think I would enjoy. I find my job repetitive and boring, and the money is very poor (band 3). I could do my NVQ business level 3 which I was planning on and apply for band 4 jobs but there is very little difference in the salary. I honestly wish when I had of left school I stuck in at college and went to uni to do nursing but I just didn’t have a clue what I wanted to do then. Ideally I would like to be a community nurse visiting patients at home/practice nurse. Working on a ward has never appealed to me. I don’t know how it would be possible for us to still pay the mortgage and everything else on only partners wage. I don’t have any relevant qualifications needed to go straight to uni away my qualifications are business related so I would have to study for 1 year prior to uni so would be a minimum of 4 years in total which worries me thinking how could we afford it. I’m just hoping someone has some advice in a similar situation, what did you do and how did you manage? I don’t want to wake up every morning and not look forward to going to work. TIA