Growing Up and Life Choices

Over the past two years I have been trying to decide what I want to do with the rest of my life.  Since working in the dental field over the past three and a half years, I decided that I wanted to do dental hygiene.  However, my first problem with entering that field, is that we as a family cannot afford me to not work full time.  The prerequisites for dental hygiene would require me to either go to school during the day, five days a week, or go to school at night.  Neither of those options are family friendly for my situation, and neither of them would work out at this point in life.  My second and most important problem with choosing dental hygiene for a career path is the availability of jobs.  My brother graduated in 2008 as a dental hygienist and he is one of the few in his class that have a job in their field.  He has a job due to the fact that I was an assistant and helped him get on and the office I worked for at the time.  If I am going to spend money on college, I want the peace of mind knowing that jobs in my field will be available in this area at the time of my graduation. 

With that option being out of my choices, I am left with the decision of which career path to take.  Family is so very important to me, that I want to make sure I have a family friendly career.  I also know that there are some careers out there that would never suit me.  There also the careers out there, that I do not think I could ever pass the requisites required because I am terrible at math.  I am finding this decision to be one of the most stressful decisions of my life so far.  I want to do the right thing for me as well as my little family.  Maybe it is a sign of immaturity on my part, but I know that I am not the only one that struggles with this.  I just hope that I can decide something within the next year, so I can put my mind at ease a bit more than what it is at this point.