r/careerguidance

I (24F) am currently in consulting but I work about 60 to 80 hours weekly and barely have time to for myself or have a life outside of work. I want to leave this job so bad since it’s affecting both my family physical and mental health but I don’t have a college degree and I only have 2 years experience working this job.

I’m thinking of making the decision to go back to school this fall and was thinking of being an RN due to job security and the 3 days a week schedule, but are there other careers with a better work life balance than consulting? Any advice is welcomed :)

I'm 31f and I feel like I've tried everything. Food service, customer service, healthcare, factory, retail, and hated all of it. I even tried starting my own online business and I hated the constant busy-ness and headache of doing it all myself. I also tried going back to school for a degree in social work only to realize I burned out from the classes alone. I dont know WHAT to do at this point. I cant imagine just picking something and settling for completely hating my life for the next 30 to 35 years. There has to be something I'm missing in this equation.

I'm 32 and I've worked maybe a total of 8 months in my entire life, most of which was when I was 18. I got badly sick not long after and just never really recovered. I have no skills, no recent work history, no education beyond a GED and no notion of what I'd even want to do (except that I absolutely do not want to work in the medical field, I did that for a short while and I hated it). I'm slowly working to some form of mental and physical stability but.. to what end? I was supposed to be using my 20s to figure myself out but it's all gone now and I've got nothing to show for it.