If you decide to go to college you should study something you’re interested in and are passionate about. There are no guarantees in life so if you can’t get a job after graduation in the area you studied in then you’ll be really bitter if you also didn’t love what you got your degree in.

Law is an overcrowded profession – whether it will remain that way or not is anybody’s guess, but there are many, many branches of law and your cousin may not have explored some of the avenues. Civil law, corporate law, and of course, the glamor kid – courtroom law. But only you can say which you would find interesting enough to involve yourself in on a fulltime basis.

But have you thought of moving up from nursing to either lab tech (there are some really exciting advances in medical science) or to becoming a doctor? Neither of these categories is going to be phased out anytime soon.