Do you feel stuck in this profession? - feelingstuck

I'm feeling stuck and I just need to vent a little bit.  I have been a transcriptionist for 12 years and loved every minute of it until just the last couple of months.  I trained with the Q and really enjoyed that job.  Had a great supervisor and all was good.  I was offered an IC position with our local hospital making 0.16/line, 50 cpl with spaces.  Of course I grabbed that up.  This was 5 years ago.  2 years ago we got a new supervisor who made us all sign a new contract and there were 4 of us contractors who took the pay cut to 0.15/line knowing we were still getting paid the highest in the area and within the MTSOs.  Back in May, another new supervisor has come in (since January) and making all kinds of changes.  She starts messing with our contracts and wants to require us to work a straight 8 hour Saturday and straight 8 hour Sunday once per month (not split shift...a straight 8 hours with 15 minute break in the a.m. and p.m. and 30 minute lunch...we are not employees).  She tells us all that we take it or leave it.  Mind you, I have been working the same schedule for 12 years, never veered off of it unless there was an emergency and even though I was an IC I went above and beyond to help the girls in the office out...I liked my job that much and was happy there. 

Now back to the story.  So we are to take it or leave it.  We lose our contract and our jobs if we don't take it.  I agreed to it IF I could split the shift 4 hours in the morning 4 in the evening.  I physicall cannot work an 8 hour shift, but that wasn't good enough for her.  I truly believe that she knows that we were getting paid really too good and was being forced by the CFO to cut expenses and she could use the outsource company cheaper than the 4 of us.  On top of that, my husband took a new job out of town and I knew even if I agreed to the new contract, she would find another way to get rid of me just by stating that since I was moving away I wouldn't be able to attend mandatory department meetings (another one of her ploys to get rid of us...didn't think an IC would be obligated to that, but she did). 

So, needless to say I left that position...kicking myself every day since.  I now work for 0.85/cpl and I am miserable.  I can't make anywhere near the amount of money I was making there.  The company I work for seems to be a good company, but our work is nitpicked to death.  2 blanks and it goes to QA. 

In this profession I have never hated my job.  I have always loved it.  The job itself and being able to homeschool my kids and be there to raise them.  In addition to that, if I were to send them to school, me take a job locally, then we would never see my husband whose work schedule has it where he comes in mid afternoon and sleeps just a few hours and leaves.  We would literally not see him at all during the week if I have to go back into public work.  I cannot afford not to work.  I don't make much now, but that little bit is still needed to make ends meet. 

I am feeling stuck.  I guess that's the best description for it.  Anybody else feel this way sometimes, especially now that pay has drastically been cut for us overall?