Your not alone. I'm 24 and have been an auto mechanic for 6 years. I'm going into LPN school in about a month and then onto RN. I did pretty much the same thing in college. You can do it, just be aggresive. It's really hard going from fields like ours into nursing. Everyone tells me I won't be able to do it, at least they did at first now they just don't say anything. Who cares if you don't get the support you need. If it's what you really want to do then go after it. Be selfish and forget about everyone else. I have a 10 month old and if home life starts getting distracting then I told them I'm going to leave until I'm done with school. It's for their own good too. If they can't see that than that's their problem. Go after your goals. Once they are met make new ones. I had goals to reach by the time I was 35 and I completed them when I was 23. Now I get to do even more stuff. You just have to go after it with everything you got. I look at it like mowing grass with a riding mower. If you try to do it at full throttle in 5th gear than it'll get done but something might get missed. Do it at full throttle in 3rd gear and nothing gets missed. Pace yourself and think of the outcome.