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Anonymous wrote:I'm in my early thirties in a dead end field and going back to school for nursing next year. Absolutely buzzy feeling to know my earning power will increase exponentially and predictably in this field, especially with additional education.

Yeah, but you have to be a nurse. I love the idea of this, except the touching gross people part.

I would be a nurse in the nursery or NICU, but no adults, please.

Good luck with that. Those jobs are not easy to get without previous experience.

Anonymous wrote:No one sees this thread as pretty sexist and reactionary? Women have always been consigned the roles of teacher or nurse, the most acceptable profession for college-educated women since the 1940s. Has nothing really changed?

It's not sexist. This is a question based on reports of women 50+ being totally out of work and you hit a peak at 35 when it comes to earning. It was on PBS news hour.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in my early thirties in a dead end field and going back to school for nursing next year. Absolutely buzzy feeling to know my earning power will increase exponentially and predictably in this field, especially with additional education.

Yeah, but you have to be a nurse. I love the idea of this, except the touching gross people part.

I would be a nurse in the nursery or NICU, but no adults, please.

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Anonymous wrote:There are no safe jobs anymore in the age of artificial intelligence.

Sadly, this is quite true. I'm sorry to say that I work in a related field and the writing has been on the wall for over a decade. It's moving a lot faster than I had expedited, however.

Robot nurses?

Like Beymax

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are no safe jobs anymore in the age of artificial intelligence.

Sadly, this is quite true. I'm sorry to say that I work in a related field and the writing has been on the wall for over a decade. It's moving a lot faster than I had expedited, however.

Robot nurses?

Anonymous wrote:There are no safe jobs anymore in the age of artificial intelligence.

Sadly, this is quite true. I'm sorry to say that I work in a related field and the writing has been on the wall for over a decade. It's moving a lot faster than I had expedited, however.

No one sees this thread as pretty sexist and reactionary? Women have always been consigned the roles of teacher or nurse, the most acceptable profession for college-educated women since the 1940s. Has nothing really changed?

Anonymous wrote:I'm in my early thirties in a dead end field and going back to school for nursing next year. Absolutely buzzy feeling to know my earning power will increase exponentially and predictably in this field, especially with additional education.

Yeah, but you have to be a nurse. I love the idea of this, except the touching gross people part.

Anonymous wrote:There are no safe jobs anymore in the age of artificial intelligence.

Really? Robots are going to be giving speech therapy to a 2 year old with apraxia or a 75 year old who just had a stroke? Robots are going to be teaching third graders how to properly use adjectives in their writing? Or counsel a couple on the brink of divorce? OK.

I’d include facilities management as another good option. It’s a stable field that is always in demand. There are many specializations such as design, construction, operations, project management, sustainability and engineering.

I'm in my early thirties in a dead end field and going back to school for nursing next year. Absolutely buzzy feeling to know my earning power will increase exponentially and predictably in this field, especially with additional education.

Anonymous wrote:Any thoughts on web design/development?

I work in IT, and see a lot of women in project management. On the technical side, there are a lot of women work as database administrators, then move on to become data architects. A good DBA is always in high demand.

I also see older women in web/UX design. They know the underlying technology, understand human-computer interaction, and they are good speakers.

As for web/software development, it is a young person's game, but you can move on to become an architect, eventually an enterprise architect for a non-technology firm.

I am in my 50s and work in a niche technical area (web/application performance tuning and management). I get recruiting calls all the time and only work for repeating clients now. In my last full time job, I tried very hard to fill positions on the performance team, and could not find decent performance engineers (most candidates were not even good performance testers). I ended up picking a couple of smart developers to train. Of course, with the DevOps trend, the startups don't need, nor could afford a performance engineer. However bigger firms, even tech firms like Google, Facebook, NetFlix.... all need performance engineers.

I see the same kind of high demand with other technical areas such as security, devops/configuration management, Database administration... the common thread is problem solving. Women are good problem solvers.

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Anonymous wrote:Really any career that deals with people- nursing, medicine, allied health professions like physical/speech/occupational therapy, audiology, clinical psychology, social work, education, etc. Of course, some of them pay better than others, and some of them have a better work/life balance.

Getting my BSN was probably the best decision I ever made.

Which of those would you say has the best work/life balance and pays well?

As a teacher, I get somewhere between 14 and 16 weeks off a year. I have no idea what the precise number is, but I do know I got a solid 2.5 months off this summer and then there 3 weeks off for winter and spring breaks, plus random holidays during the year. I'm not aware of anyone else who gets this much time off without being self-employed in the US. Our house cost 2x my current salary, and with my making about the same amount from a side gig, we were able to pay it off in <4 years before we turned 30.

Nursing. Getting a direct-entry MSN in my 20s was a great choice, as it will give me more career options once my children are in school full-time.

I work bedside despite having the credentials to be an administrator for work-life balance (managers at my facility are constantly on-call and work 50+ hours/week). I typically work 2 shifts (24 hours)/week in an in-demand specialty, rarely pick up OT, get paid to maintain my credentials and education, am able to be present for my children, have great benefits, and make $70K/year.

Any thoughts on web design/development?