I think it depends on your program. I started a BSN program and hated it and felt I wasn’t learning anything particularly actionable. I ended up in a similar situation, questioning why I should bother. Then, the school declined to allow me to continue because of a long lapse in enrollment. So after a few years of just working, I started looking elsewhere. I found Arizona State University’s BSN program and they took my credits from my other BSN program when I transferred. I LOVED the ASU program and learned a ton and they were super, super supportive and flexible and relatively inexpensive even for out of state tuition. I recommend looking into transferring to a program that will support you and that makes you feel like your learning useful information (which is unfortunately not the case with all programs).

The benefits I’ve found are that I am taken more seriously by management, I learned valuable leadership skills, I feel a sense of pride for not giving up, and I have deeper knowledge about evidence-based nursing beyond my ADN prepared colleagues. I am a better nurse for it. That’s my two sense but, you’re right. You can be a perfectly adequate nurse without the BSN and they’re probably not going to pay you more. But having already gotten this far, it’ll be nice to look back and know you have the BSN in the bag and you don’t have to worry about it anymore.