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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for all your responses.  It gave me a lot to think about.

I guess I'm looking for some adult contact.  In the 10 years I've been home, I've done a small business - Ebay with over 10,000 sales, I've held various positions in my home owner's association for 6 years, been an officer in the DC's PTA.  I'm even back to studying the instrument I played up until grad school.

Although I have a master's degree plus 60 credits (I'm so DONE with school!), I don't have my teaching license anymore and would have to return to graduate school again.  Plus with common core and constant testing, the teaching profession is not appealing to me anymore.  I know an Instructional Assistant or substitute position would be a better fit for everyone in my family, I'm honestly burned out and done with children.

Maybe I should just go out a buy a Harley and call this a mid life crisis a few years late![/quote]

To me, this sounds more like you want something to GROW rather than to contribute and move on. Right now you're just filling your time and maybe that's not for you. I would really explore volunteering. You can turn that into a career. It seems like you don't want to work at a store because you don't want to work at a store. There's no "career" difference between that and being an Administrative Assistant except one is in a mall and one is at an office. The office must be more appealing to you because you say you're not outgoing. Really, though, don't Admins need to be? Isn't that part of the job?

I'd wait until my younger child is in Middle School and then do something for myself. You may be getting antsy, but really it's only a few years and then you can do what you want and not have to go through this. [/quote]

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