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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I second the preschool option. They always need subs, aides and administrators. I would check with private schools as well. [/quote]

but they get paid nothing. I think these are dead end jobs for most people. Substitute teaching is  the worst. The pay is  a joke.[/quote]

Can these jobs be used as jumping boards to some other jobs? If you have no resume, and a general degree without special training that you got decades ago you gotta start somewhere.  I don't think she can jump into a "career"  type of jobs right away unless she has some specialized skills and connections or she goes for a new degree. [/quote]

Preschool teaching can be lovely for someone who loves it but it's extremely low-paying and you don't have anywhere to go career-wise except if you wanted to start your own daycare or school or something, but that's a whole set of different skills and one I wouldn't advise to start at 50.  Substitute teaching is a stop-gap but it can be a way to decide if you want to be a full-time teacher.  The teacher resident program for people with a BA degree is a real career path that OP could start--if she at all thought she was cut out for teaching--as that's developing a profession and there's support in place to get licensed and they have benefits, time off etc. that many value.  BUt it's a hard job.

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This. No one is saying that teaching is an easy job; it's going to give OP the highest income and good benefits given the fact that she has no career. OP should take advantage of the teacher shortage and get a FT teaching job while she works on her certifications. It's the one career path that she actually can jump into right now.

[b]It sounds like some posters want to punish OP for not having a career[/b].[/quote]

It's jealousy, because it's hard to have a career while raising kids, it's draining, and most women fail at building successful high earning careers anyway and just tread water.  Sure, you will be able to support yourself and have low six figures if you mommy-tracked and didn't make partner or managing director, or whatever. In the meanwhile, OP had lived without doing dreaded double shift, and was able to at least do one thing well.  I've been working since my late teens and cannot wait to retire, there is no glamour in working FT while raising kids.  In fact while those like OP can jump into the workforce with renewed energy excited to do something different and likely being able to work into their older age, I am so burnt out, I don't think I can last till age 55.. If you tell me I have to keep working till 65 (and now there are talks to increase the age to 67), I would just want to jump off a bridge. [/quote]

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