Please help with me choose a career

[lojantiqu]

I have a midwifery degree. I'm 24. One child aged 5, father (my ex) is involved but pretty useless.

I want to significantly increase my earning potential. I need a career change. It would be nice to have a job I enjoy (or at least don't hate).

I am quite academic. My numeracy is ok, but maths isn't my strong suit. I'm good with people.

I've looked into doing a masters. Potentially studying something like law?

Please give me ideas?! I'm willing to retrain if necessary.

It would help to know why you no longer want a career as a midwife

Are you currently working as a midwife and if so what are the aspects of it that you dislike?

The poor working conditions, the constant bitching and bullying culture.

I love the patients, but hate everything else.

It's so much responsibility for such crap pay.

What about private sector midwifery? Or self employed doula? Or a sideways move to occupational health or personal injury insurance?

Or NHS management? NHS or civil service grad schemes?

I'll look into insurance - thank you!

Private midwifery isn't really a thing in the UK, more so in London but that's very far from me. Independent midwives make similar, if not less than NHS midwives.

Managers don't make much more either, for the level of stress and responsibility.

Could you do some kind of teaching qualification and get into higher education, teaching midwifery to undergraduates? (*disclaimer, I have absolutely no idea what the route into this would be and whether you have enough experience to be considered)

I can't think of any career change which is going to instantly provide a much higher salary

Thank you!

I’ve been in your shoes.. as in a discontented nurse.. academic life as a lecturer is well paid but a 60 hour plus a week job.. but I enjoyed it before kids. Now I do nvq assessor but pay is crap, but flexiblity amazing. What bout pharma jobs selling/training for drug companies.. look on https://www.jobs.ac.uk/ for academic jobs to see.. research nurse posts etc?

Running nct classes, teaching pregnancy yoga, running a franchise of baby group classes, childminder from home, fostering babies, fostering mum and baby pairs (you'd be perfect at this).

If more training considered - physiotherapy, radiography, surveyor, lawyer, biology teacher

Ooh also train to do Botox and fillers- cosmic aesthetics are big earners