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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  My child and my friends kids are all between ages 3-4, so many of them haven't dealt with before/after care or camps yet because like I said, everyone I know who works full-time either has an au pair (majority of families), one spouse works from home and can cover, or they have local grandparents who babysits/nannies regularly.  So they aren't scrambling to find coverage for sick/snow days or summers as much.  The logistics of figuring all this out do seem incredibly overwhelming since spouse's job is 100% inflexible so it all falls on me.  So far it's been easy because any sick/snow days and all summer is just me, spouse has never taken any time off for any of these situations.  It's challenging to try to figure out how I would get all that time covered, especially since new jobs usually have limited vacation time.

But the logistics aside, my question is more of what can I do with my degrees and my limited work experience.  I preferred the school counseling aspect of my job to teaching.  I can try to find sub jobs as a first step to getting back into things but I want to explore what else I could possibly do with a JD and a master's in special education.  I'm having difficulty envisioning job possiblities for myself.  I guess having an actual career is probbably not realistic at this point.

Thanks![/quote]

School counseling is super competitive in that there is an oversupply of people who want to do it for very few jobs (especially in the nicer suburban schools). Plus you will need to retrain for it. You won't get a counseling job with a teaching degree and one or two years of teaching experience.

Having an actual career is not unrealistic at this point. But you do need to think about it practically which it doesn't sound like you are doing right now. You are all about your wants and demands (i.e. you want a well paying, meaningful job that fits between the hours of 10-3; you know this is something of a unicorn right?) vs. what is realistic and possible for someone with your education and work history.[/quote]

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