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I came to say almost the same thing Barely Breathing said. As a nurse do you know that 50% of what we do is educate? Educate patients on their conditions why they occur how to manage, what their meds do and how they help and when best to take them etc.

I do recall that your teaching history is older kids in sciences. If that is something you enjoy even if you have zero interest in teaching kids again there are many paths available to you and you can use your work history of x number of years in the sciences to kids that come from difficult circumstances could help you find roles as product/device educator, pharmacy medication rep, the options in the medical field alone are many. If you truly have chemistry and more advanced biology history you may even be able to tutor kids from a much better financial and social background or for a district that wants to ensure kids score higher on tests.

For all your years of experience you can definitely turn this into a positive. It's 1000% up to you.
You have for all the years you have been here been shown ways to change things to make life better but as far as I can remember have not taken opportunities take life happy and fulfilling for yourself.

We as individuals alone are responsible for our own happiness. Nows an opportunity to really consider what you want to do. I can tell you I have seen nurses that had a calling but life sidetracked one way or another become one at ages greater than 50. Your life and happiness are 1000% your choice. Go find yours.

Hello, thank you for taking the time to respond. I will say that I am not interested in anything to do with teaching anymore after the last experience I have had. This year has completely burned me out and turned me off on ever working at a school ever again. I feel like all of my effort and time spent after school, evenings, and weekends working on teacher work was never appreciated. Other people even told me I work harder than any other teacher they know. Yet I seem to have the least to show for it, in terms of student behavior, student-achievement, and how the principals think of me. I never really felt like I was good at it. The reason I changed my major to education was more to do with needing to make a very quick decision on a change of major so that I didn't have to stay in the nursing program and could still graduate on time. My dad would have killed me if I told him that I needed to spend another year or even just another semester in college. They were already very disappointed when I changed majors halfway through college upon realizing at the nursing clinicals that I wasn't cut out for patient care or hospital work. I felt similar about teaching, honestly, once I reached student teaching during senior year of college but by that point, was already in my last year of college and did not want to delay things, I stuck with it just to have a degree. I am not really sure what I want to do at this point. I know that I live in and at will employment state that has a very low minimum wage so working retail doesn't mean it will pay anything to be able to cover basic costs of living.

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With many things moving on-line, are there any possibilities? Tutoring, English as a second language, or other possibilities? What about doing a blog or something similar?

With many things moving on-line, are there any possibilities?

That is what I was thinking as well. I know folks who were doing international tutoring and it paid very well. Maybe something like that?

I am done with teaching after all of this shit this year, sorry to curse but I've had it especially after today. I never want to hear the word teaching ever again after June.

I know that I live in and at will employment state that has a very low minimum wage so working retail doesn't mean it will pay anything to be able to cover basic costs of living.

You said in an earlier post that you have enough savings to get by so retail (or something else) would supplement those savings. So my thought is just be you for a change. Decide what you might love doing and do it. It seems like you've lived your life for your parents who are deceased and can no longer make you feel guilty, who cares what your brother thinks, who cares what anyone thinks?

I happen to work in retail at a job that I love - I do the accounting aspect of it, locked behind 2 doors on 2 cameras with all of the money! Someone I work with is coming up on retirement in July, and even though she can afford to retire, she wants to go work at a garden center or greenhouse. That's her little dream job. This is the time to follow your dream. You've suffered long enough in a job you didn't love.

I happen to work in retail at a job that I love

I was going to say something similar. I had 2 coworkers who decided to do seasonal retail work just for the discounts they would get for Christmas shopping. Both of them loved it so much that they stayed after the holiday season was over. The one said she loved going to a job where she did her hours then clocked out both physically and mentally at the end of her shift. She said she loved absentmindly folding shirts with none of the stressors of her regular job! The other lady ended up being a hostess at a popular food chain. She loved it as well.

In my area, companies are still struggling to bounce back from covid still (lack of employees, etc), so you might be able to secure a pay way more than you are expecting to help offset the salary loss.

A couple folks I know switched to warehouse/factory work and ended up liking it way more than expected as well.

So with teaching options off your plate, cast a wide net while looking for employment. You might just find some joy in a field you never expected.

The one said she loved going to a job where she did her hours then clocked out both physically and mentally at the end of her shift.

Truly, that is a benefit of retail. That is, if you can leave it at the door.

I have worked with people who just couldn't get over a bad experience with a customer and they'd be talking about it weeks later. Or they can't get over the fact that they have to work weekends when let's face it, the store is open on the weekend and the needs of the business dictate that they need people to operate it. Personally, I work Fri, Sat, Sun and Mon by choice - that's what I asked for. I don't give a crap about the "weekend" - it's just another 2 days to me. And some get way too involved with the other people at work. I tend to keep to myself, do my job and go home. I'm well known for not gossiping so managers tell me stuff I have no business knowing, and the personnel manager asked for me to be her back-up because of my discretion, so that is another job in the store I used to do when it was needed. I don't really "friend" co-workers and get involved with them. At my age, I'm not really looking for more friends. I chat pleasantly with them at work, and leave it at that.

I started at this job as a cashier because after having a management job, I wanted to have something I could do and just leave at the door. There are a ton of days that I come home and my h says "how was work?" and I say "all right" and that's it. I don't have to talk about it for 2 hours to get it out my system like some previous jobs I had. As a cashier, I decided to have a positive attitude and be empathetic with my customers even if they were being unreasonable, and I found I got what I gave. I just really didn't have negative interactions very often, and I had in a past job where I just had the wrong attitude for being in retail at the time.

When I was going through what we were not talking about on this section of this website, my retail job was a Godsend because like EvenKeel said, folding shirts was just not too much on my plate at the time. I could put my perfection tendencies into that while my m was not perfect.

And yes, I love my store discount! When you add what I save in discounts, it brings my wage up considerably, not that I'm complaining about my wage. I actually think I do ok for what I do. And because I'm a good worker, I've received a couple of merit increases along the way in addition to yearly increases. There are a lot of people at my store that have worked there for 30 and 40+ years so retail certainly works for some people.