Quiting my career to pursue college

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I know that in some people's eyes I am still young. I will be 25 in Sept. However, this is a very tough decision. I joined the military out of high school and did that for four years. Now due to certain circumstances, the whole Iraq war thing going on, I was not able to pursue college while I was in or should I say it would have been a little harder to and I was not willing to put in that kind of effort at the time. I was honorably discharged from the army in 2006. I started working at a car dealership selling cars. Found out rather quickly that I was pretty good at it and thought that is what I wanted to do. Well the past almost 2 years have been very successful, from a money aspect at least compared to my salary in the army. What kills me is the hours. It is a 75+ hour week every week. 6 days a week. I thought that it wasn't that ig of deal at first, but am starting to realize that it is or at least will be when I have children and do not get to spend time with them because daddy works all the time. Ok, so to make a long story a little shorter by selling cars I was able to support My finance and myself while she was in college. Well we lived a nice lifestyle and had a great wedding and now we are in that oh so typical situation here in America called credit card debt. I still have about $17000 roughly to pay. So now I want to go to school to get my associates degree in nursing and become an rn. I know that I will have to work as much as I can during it all to keep paying the bills I do have. So I was basically wondering if anyone had any advice or inputs or just anything they could say to help out. I figure that in order to be living very meagerly and paying off a large chunk of the cards each month I would need an income of around $2000.00 a month preferably. I have budgeted and determined that I can make it with $1200. any ideas about good ways to make a decent income while in school. Thank you and I look forward to hearing some responses. -Rob