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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you may want to market your editing skills and Ivy degrees to read and edit college application essays and such. It's flexible, you can get help setting up a website and search optimization then work virtual. After all, you've edited similar for years.[/quote]

OP here. I have a friend in another state who does just this. She makes relatively little money doing it, but she's very good at it. She's helped get kids into Ivies and other very competitive colleges. I'm sure I could do this too, but I'm not sure I want to! I taught the college level briefly, but I didn't like teaching. I did edit my child's essays, though. She got into most of the colleges she applied to.

I've had more ideas: Nutritionist (I'm really into food and health); I'm also very interested in sustainability. I wonder if I could volunteer to do PR or some other writing for an environmental group?

Any other suggestions? I'm feeling a bit lost. I don't have a lot of money, but I'm thinking a coach specializing in SAHMs re-entering the workforce might be helpful. I'm not sure what to do first -- network? education? LinkedIn? A coach might help me come up with a plan.

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I started out as a nutritionist - my career over the years shifted to more health policy based once we moved to DC - and it's going to be tough without a degree. A fitness trainer would be a lower bar of entry - you still need to be certified but it's easier than going and getting an RD degree and passing exams and getting a master's in nutrition.

There are a lot of quacks out there unfortunately so you really don't want to claim you can advise people on nutrition and diet without a certification or license of some sort. With fitness, you can get a certification and certainly talk to people in GENERAL about their diet and eating habits which might be the way in. You just need to be careful if a client has any kind of health condition that you clear about your credentials.

Fitness training might be fun - you could offer to train people at your home or theirs if you didn't want to work at a gym.

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