It's an underpaid profession, but that's going to have to change.
Hence the reason why my parents chose me to do nursing. 
It's kinda sad if your parents choose what you have to do.
I KIND OF feel you.
Background: My parents are divorced, living with my mother, my father has his own company.
My mother tells me to go study whatever I want, but my father,...
He wants me to go and study something like mechatronics (basicly coding/configuring robot arms and such stuff).
I totally do not want to do that stuff, I want to be a programmer and work for a game company or something like that, or heck
opening up my own business afterwards.
Well he ain't that forceful, he is just saying that I could immediately work in his company and that I could be very usefull in the future.
But let's be honest, I don't want to do that, and I know that something I don't want to do, makes me demotivated and I fail at it later.
For example history in school. I hate history, totally demotivating me, I barely passed history in 2nd and 3rd highschool year.
I'm going for (direct google translate from Slovene -> English): Bachelor's of Computer Science and Information Technology.
Have to apply 'till march 8th to the UNI.