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[quote=Anonymous]I'm about to turn 40, and I feel very lost career wise.  Currently I'm a SAHM who works very part-time for $15 per hour at a fun and meaningful job.  Meaningful because it's for a cause I am very passionate about at an organization I really respect.  I've been in this job for two years and have gotten very good performance reviews.

Due to secondary infertility we are no longer able to have any more children, and now my one and only is about to start K next year.  I had planned to SAH longer if I had been able to have a second but now I feel like I should go back to work.

I never really had a career, though I have a JD.  After receiving my JD I worked at a variety of non-legal jobs (parents pressured me into going to law school when I was 23 and I hated it and my legal internships).  I never took the bar exam, which I regret.  In my early 30s I went back to school and got a masters in teaching and worked for a few years in special ed/school counseling until I had my first child.

I was always very directionless career-wise, always job hopped (except for my current and last job) and I have inattentive ADD (which I did not know I had until a few years ago).  I really enjoyed teaching/school counseling and would consider going back to something in that field.  Though my first and only job out of grad school for  my master's was entry level, so I'd be going back to entry level now, which is fine.

Now that my dream of having a second child will never happen (due to the secondary infertility, we've already done 4 IVFs), I feel like I need a new roadmap for my 40s because I feel completely lost career wise.  Any suggestions? I feel like the biggest failure career wise and this bothers me every day.[/quote]

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