I currently work in the hospitality industry, and I am getting tired of having to hold up my 40+ hours a week at my desk, and then all the after hours time I am required to put in unpaid. I get paid an average wage plus bonuses, but our goals went up tremendously this year, so a bonus is probably not going to happen. I have a Bachelor's in Biology, but it has been over 10 years since I graduated. I am willing to go back to school, but I am having a hard time deciding what I want to do.

My biggest issue is that I work to live, and no matter what the job has been, it's still a job. If I won the lottery, I would not work. I can be happy doing a multitude of things - it's just deciding what. Since I don't get paid a whole lot now, I don't want to take a pay cut, and if I am going to have to take out a ton of loans for school, I want to make sure the increase of pay justifies the cost. Since I am older, I also don't want to go to school for longer than a couple years. I'm full of caveots, aren't I?

So careers on the short list right now are Nursing, physical therapy, marriage and family therapy, and accounting. I have also considered going back to being an executive assistant (I was the assistant to a Senior VP for four years after working for other executives for a few years before that), but I can't imagine getting very far in a career doing that work.