The health / nursing track pays well and, if you're into that sort of thing, can be very rewarding. You ought to be able to pursue a track that doesn't involve a lot of ass-wiping or bodily fluid duty, though something specialized may require more education.
yes. I'm able to work in my current situation without any certifications at all. however 'real nurses', even the unionized ones with genuine living wages, tend to work in highly pressurized (and understaffed) environments, and as a young nurse explained to me over a beer one night, "If I screw up it might cost somebody their life." not the most alluring thing to my mind.
I almost certainly agree. grad school departments in the humanities and social sciences are universally reported to be insufferable, and the tales I read from some theology PhD candidates make me think it's no different.
Are you still an aspiring morman, Tweed?
no, nothing like that. Mormons barely qualify as having any 'theology', to begin with. they have one accepted mode of reading their doctrinal texts (what we would call 'literalism') and an omnipotent human magisterium that even the pre-Reformation RCC would pine for.