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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]

Yes, I can understand wanting to make and have adult friendships that don't focus on a bond as a parent. So my suggestions are that being an admin isn't the only way to meet that goal. Could you join a running club or locate running partners to encourage them? As weird as it sounds, posting at a runners store (like Pacers) might well yield you some quality adults. Based on what you're saying you want (adult contact), the graduate school, eBay and instrument lessons may have been fulfilling for skills attainment, but may not have accomplished your real goal: genuine friendships with adults. Some PTA volunteering is heavily admin and some is more social. Could you volunteer for a responsibility that is more social? Look for Meetups? Seems to me like you're a plucky accomplished human being and there's no reason you have to be an admin to have adult conversations with adults you like and share commonalities with![/quote]

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