I am just looking for any experiences of people who work in this field.
I'm due to return from maternity leave later this year to a job I don't enjoy. There's also little prospects to climb the ladder or earn a larger salary and now that I'm done having children I'd really like to think we could be better off as a family rather than scraping by each month. I also want to do something that excites and interests me - I'm just over 30 so I have more of my working life left than I've done so far!!
My current job is 3 days from home so I will return to it initially, I'm thinking of this as a long term plan. I'd have to do a science access course as I have a non science degree and no science GCSEs. I've found this available online. The nutrition course is a post grad degree so it's fairly expensive, though there is student finance.
On the surface the career appeals to me. I've personally researched nutrition to help my own endometriosis and infertility diagnosis. And I'm celiac. I find it fascinating the impact food can have on the body and really think proactive nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow. I'd love to specialise in endometriosis (specifically bowel endometriosis) and maybe more generally women's health and fertility. I feel that the combination of working with people, helping people's quality of life, flexibility and self employment, combined with the opportunity to have something more 'stable' as a role with doctors, nhs, education or more... really ticks all my boxes. It seems with your own clinic it can be very lucrative too, eventually.
Obviously the degree is a huge investment in time and money (it doesn't seem to be something available online only, and would be full time) I may even have to wait until both children are at school to train.
Just wanting anyone in the field to come along and shed some experience / pros / cons / reality!
Thanks