Too many nurses and teachers

with regards to the guidance Councillor debate, my one was absolutely terrible, as i remember her telling the majority of us 'to seriously consider air hostessing in the long term' (not that there's anything wrong with that, but she didn't even encourage us to reach higher!). I never once had nursing suggested to me, and was doing a completely different college course before i decided to go on to nursing.
I chose it not because i was a 'stupid 17-19 year old'. I was 20 and I knew there were opportunities to travel and work abroad with nursing that would take me out of Ireland, where people don't appreciate how hard good nurses work until they go to hospital. And there is A HUGE under-staffing problem in the hospitals here, us student nurses work for free (slave labour) and are being used to bulk out the staff force, even though we aren't qualified yet. but sure why wouldn't they when we work +40 hours a week for nothing...