When I sit back and think about who and what inspired me to get my nursing degree, I would have to say my son. I became a CNA a short while after I had him and he was my motivation to get my CNA's and better myself for him. I had always said I would go get my RNs once he had graduated from high school. I actually enrolled in school for my degree a year before he graduated. He graduated a year early and at the age of sixteen. I was so proud of him; even though he is done with school, and I am still going he will always be my motivation to not quit. I tell myself every semester this is getting hard, and I want to quit, but then I think about how hard he pushed himself to graduate to make me proud and I want to graduate from college and make him proud and show him that his mother is not a quitter no matter how many times I have told him I wanted to quit. I tell him I want to switch my major, but I know deep down I do not because I love what I do as a CNA, and I know that I will make a great nurse one day.