MsPrincess- before you go for pharmacy, just check into Obamacare and how it affected the field. My sister is thinking of going for pharmacy, but she was told that under Obamacare, it has become impossible to get a job as a pharmacist.
Nurse-practitioner actually sounds like quite a good field… a hard one, as well, but good. My friend’s sister got a job at NYU as a nurse straight out of college, and they will pay for her to go back and become an NP after a couple of years of work.