On Friday and Monday we publish the problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Guardian Work supplement, so readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy's own insights. Here is the latest dilemma – what are your thoughts?
I live in Scotland and have been a qualified nurse for nearly 21 years, having been a care assistant before my training. After three years as a qualified nurse, I went to what is now Queen Margaret University to study nutrition and graduated with 2:2 honours. Following graduation, I spent two-and-a-half years doing other things to make ends meet, and initially went to study secondary teaching in home economics, but realised certain aspects were not for me and so drifted back into nursing, where I have been ever since.
I have mostly worked with older people and still do, and I enjoy that part – it is simply all the other things that go with the job. I have never found a use for my degree either, and now I am 46 I wonder if I ever will. Should I look for work that will make use of my degree?
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