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0 Ghanaian personality Diana Hamilton has opened up about how her dream of becoming an architect unexpectedly turned into a career in nursing, due to the influence of her aunty.
Speaking on The Career Trail on Joy Learning TV and Joy News, the gospel musician revealed that growing up, she had a strong passion for creativity and technical drawing, which led her to believe she would become an architect.
“At a point in time, I thought I was going to be an architect because I was very good at technical drawing. I think that informed my creativity. Nursing was never part of the dream,” she said.
However, after completing her secondary education at Ghana National College, her plans took a surprising turn.
“I had finished Ghana National College and was deciding whether to go to KNUST. A lady walked up to my father and said, ‘Let Diana go and do nursing.’ My father agreed, and surprisingly, I didn’t object,” she disclosed.
Reflecting further, Diana highlighted that the seed of nursing had unknowingly been planted much earlier, during her time in Junior Secondary School, when her mother’s sister, a nurse battling terminal breast cancer, came to live with their family.
“While I was in Junior Secondary School, my mother’s sister came to live with us. She was a nurse, and everything I admired. She was battling breast cancer and was dying, but she taught me how to care for her. She showed me how to give injections, dress her wounds, make her bed, she taught me everything about nursing, long before I ever considered it as a career,” she recounted.
This deeply personal experience became the foundation of her response during her nursing school interview at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
“They asked me why I wanted to be a nurse. I said, my aunty had just passed from breast cancer. She was a beautiful woman who loved fashion, but also knew how to switch roles and be a professional nurse. I wanted to be like her,” she recalled.
That pivotal moment marked the beginning of a journey that led her to become a registered nurse, eventually practicing in the United Kingdom.
When asked why she didn’t continue nursing in Ghana, Diana explained that the majority of her music opportunities were coming from the UK, making travel back and forth exhausting.
“I did my rotation at Korle Bu for about 2 years. Within that time, I was in and out of London. Most of my musical gigs were in the UK. Traveling frequently between Ghana and the UK became too stressful, so I decided to stay in the UK,” she noted.
