Single Mom. Should I tackle nursing school?

I’m a single mom of a 2 year old and am looking for a career change. His dad is so inconsistent and working cash jobs that I can no longer rely on him for financial help. Currently I am a salon suite owner providing lash extensions and honestly buisness has been slow. I’m worried lash extensions are dying and never planned on lashing my whole life anyway. If I had to close my buisness I wouldn’t be able to go back to a normal salon working nights and weekends 5 days a week only making 30k a year. Currently I’m making about 45-50k.

I’ve always wanted to be a nurse and I honestly think I’d be great at it! I love working with people. Currently I am living with a family member. With the prices of renting and houses I feel so stuck with my income. I’m really exploring other options. I’m in Minnesota and they pay their nurses well! I am debating on going back to school but not sure if it’s the right time or I should wait till my son is older.

Currently my rent is dirt cheap living with family and have zero debt. My only bills are rent, daycare, care insurance and phone bill. Plus groceries, gas, ect. School would pay for my daycare which is a plus! I could book clients around my school schedule to bring in some money. Finding sitters for clinicals might be stressful but not impossible. I have lots of family around.

I’m iffy because my current job is so flexible! I can take days off when he’s out of daycare, and totally customize my schedule to my sons which makes life so easy especially being a single mom BUT I don’t think I’ll ever make enough to own a home. If I moved into an apartment I feel we would be stuck there forever and then I’d have even more bills and I’d never be able to go back to school. It feels like now is the time to do it but I have so much mom guilt and fear that a nursing schedule will be impossible as a single mom. I’m so stuck! I want to provide a happy stable life for my kiddo!

There’s also that constant fear that lashes will go away and my income will stop which keeps me from renting an apartment because I never know what my income that month will be. Average is about $4000 a month BUT that could always change at a drop of a hat! I want something solid and stable and at LEAST 60k a year and nursing just seems like a great fit because there are SO many different opportunities within the field.