Life's dilema.?

I'm 27, i'm kinda at that age where I need to do something with my life.
Now I've always wanted to travel the world me and my husband have decided that when he retires in 4 years we will go traveling, I want to become a nurse using these skills doing charity work on my travels.
Now the dilemma... I have always wanted to become a midwife however I also feel that a broader knowledge of general nursing would be beneficial for traveling.
Which do I do?

Why must he be a sugar Daddy, U can retire before 65 you know! God people on here are so judgmental.

Firstly, lucky you and good on you. Deciding to do something like this is huge and I applaud you for it. Shame other people have ignorantly assumed that your husband is so old.........

I think that you should specialise as a midwife. You want to do it anyway so go for it. Wouldn't your training as a midwife give you some other general nursing skills anyway? And depending where you travel people will ALWAYS need a midwife. Everywhere you go there will be people getting pregnant and giving birth. Especially so in the poorer countries.

If he can retire in four years he must be a sugar Daddy so you had better do general nursing so you can look after him!

Geriatric Nursing may come in useful.

Please don't be offended but "ANGEL A" just took the words right out of my mouth!

try here

http://www.vso.org.uk/

You are 27, and are married to a man who is due to r etire in four years? Hmmm. How old is HE? I ask that because I know when my husband was getting ready to retire from the grindstone, he certainly had no desire to take off and go travelling. You seem to have a lot of ambition for things to start on just at the time when your husband is getting ready to relax and take it easy. I wonder if you have had that talk with him about this yet, even though you said "me and my husband" one time.
On top of this, you are talking about wanting to "become a nurse" How do you propose to get involved in a five or six year course of nurse training if you are intending to take off and go travelling? Are you meaning that you intend to start nursing training immediately so that you will be pretty close to graduating by the time he retires? I admire the ambition, but I keep going back to the question of the possible age difference between you and him. Guys do not normally retire till the age of at least 62. Loooots of good lookin guys your age out there in nursing school, not to mention all those young doctors and medical students around your age. I see warning lights.

Only you can decide what you would like to do,but If your wanting to travel around the world and do some charity work with nursing skills,your best bet is to become a nurse,because if you become a midwife,you could be narrowing down where you could do charity work ,where nursing is leaving many options open for yourself to where you could do charity work.You could always go back to college and become a midwife after your travels if that's what you still wanted to be.I hope that what ever you choose to do,you it all works out and that you have a grand time travelling the world.

nursing skills are need all over the world.but if u want to travel the world and help others then try going on the Mercy Ship.u will do traveling and helping others.here is the address check it out.www.mercyships.org good luck at what ever u do.

I am sooo jealous of you. To be able to have the choice to travel at an age young enough to be able to really enjoy it, and to use your skills while doing so would be fantastic.

Nursing is needed everywhere, world wide. Midwifery, although takes a couple more years training, can also be used everywhere - but you need to know basic nursing first (3 - 4 years depending on where you go to uni and on-the-job training), you don't go into midwifery first. Do the nursing course first, and only then decide whether you want to continue learning (with the midwifery course) or start nursing in the big wide world. Don't make the decision from now - you can wait until further down the track. You may decide that another branch of nursing attracts you more.

When you finish, you can look on the internet for volunteer nursing work (I know that on Volunteer Abroad there were 363 positions for nursing volunteers), but the situation may change by the time you finish and your husband retires. So it will be more applicable then.

Good luck with your decision. Hope it all goes well for you.

good lord i don't believe how judgemental some of you are her hubby could have won lotto for all we know and
if this Lady's hubby want to retire what business is it of yours as to how old he is she only asked for ideas not smart *** remakes. i really hope you have fun on your travels nursing will take 4 years of hard work at uni god knows i have done it but once you do it your skills will be needed i am sure.just do a r/n at uni then go from there if you start now you should be finished in the time when your hubby retires.
good luck

Sounds like wonderful plans to be with regards to the travel if you can afford to retire. I am also a nurse and am general trained. I believe you would have many more options open to you if you are general trained opposed to being trained in just one field. Nurse training in UK is 3 years.
Like you i would love to do charity work on travels as a nurse but i cannot afford to do so. I do hope to one day though or if i won the lottery!
My family and i are planning on emigrating to Australia , set up home, find jobs in nursing and also travel around Australia and the pacific.

I say go for general training...you can then always do midwifery as an extra speciality later on.