“There’s no easy job” … but help me find one

[Anonymous]

I agree there is no easy job but I feel burned out and unappreciated and underpaid. I’m an English teacher (uncertified) and thinking of transitioning to a different line of work. I took a few years off to SAH and am just starting teaching again. What is a good option for me as a career changer? Library? Nursing or some kind of medical assistant? I actually do not need to worry about salary since DH makes enough, but I did the calculations and I make less than Dtarbucks and McDonald’s workers as a teacher, which is kind of demoralizing.

[Anonymous]

There’s tons of easy jobs but most of them don’t pay well. I do literally almost nothing on my shifts but I only make $50k a year.

[Anonymous]

I’m open to going back to school too. Maybe an associates degree? But in what field?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s tons of easy jobs but most of them don’t pay well. I do literally almost nothing on my shifts but I only make $50k a year.

What do you do?

[Anonymous]

Philanthropy. (Not fundraising). Find a foundation whose looking for an Executive Director and you're set. Easy, good enough money.

[Anonymous]

The easiest job is something you like. If you like English, maybe become a copyeditor or journalist or writer for blogs? An editor of books?

[Anonymous]

Some ideas I had:

MSW to go into counseling or other social work

MLIS for library work or doing information systems work for organizations

Associates degree or Masters to go into nursing

But… apart from maybe library work (which seems to be a dying field) these options seem like they may be even harder than teaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The easiest job is something you like. If you like English, maybe become a copyeditor or journalist or writer for blogs? An editor of books?

I’ve thought about these but how to break into this work? I see lots of random freelance websites and the field just seems very over saturated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Philanthropy. (Not fundraising). Find a foundation whose looking for an Executive Director and you're set. Easy, good enough money.

I don’t think I have the networking and fundraising skills for this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s tons of easy jobs but most of them don’t pay well. I do literally almost nothing on my shifts but I only make $50k a year.

You make more than I do, unless I work summer camp.

-OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The easiest job is something you like. If you like English, maybe become a copyeditor or journalist or writer for blogs? An editor of books?

I’ve thought about these but how to break into this work? I see lots of random freelance websites and the field just seems very over saturated.

You can pitch a few articles to editors, you can start with the random freelance sites or just go to Indeed.com and search for writer - lots of stuff comes up.

[Anonymous]

In fact, information science (used to be called Librarians) is a huge and growing field. My cousin got her degree in it and I was shocked but it's apparently very cool and very in demand.

[Anonymous]

Work for a temp agency (at least for a bit). Pick n choose, no commitment, no work to take home, and a taste of a bit of everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In fact, information science (used to be called Librarians) is a huge and growing field. My cousin got her degree in it and I was shocked but it's apparently very cool and very in demand.

what jobs?

[Anonymous]

My law firm just hired three new librarians . OP, you could tutor kids in English. Under the table and you charge what the market will bear.