what would you do if you weren't an MT? - jj

Just out of curiosity.  I went into the MT career when my first son was born.  I wanted a decent job allowing me to work part time but raise my own children.  11 years later and I don't ever regret that decision.  I have 2 children now, I work part time at night after they go to bed, and I am able to homeschool them and they can do their sports activities.  I worked for MQ as my original training for 5 years and I thought the pay was pretty good, had a great supervisor.  After an IC position opened up at our local hospital, I grabbed at that chance making 0.16 cpl.  After 5 years and 3 supervisors later, the new XXXX of a supervisor decided she wanted us all gone, so she tried to change our contract and require us to work certain hours (I have kept the same schedule for 10 years) and she would require us to work 8 hours every 3rd Saturday...hello I was an IC, not an employee and she didn't want the 8 hours split, had to sit down and work the 8 hours with a 15 minute break in the morning, 30 for lunch, and 15 in the afternoon...sounds like an employee requirement.  I said no thanks, along with the other 4 contractors and we all left.  Because of the contract dispute this past spring I had to leave that job (man was that hard) to find that I can only make about 0.085 cpl (and that's because of a shift differential).  I'm finding I am working myself up to being dissatisified now with the new job (I know it is the money thing), but I like the company I am working for so far.  I have been really thinking hard on this of late and wondering what else is there, really, for women/men who want to raise their own kids, but still be able to work like this?  We definitely are not getting paid enough to do what we do and I find that I am not making even the money now I was making before when I left MQ.  I will not leave my children in daycare nor send them to school during the day, but I can't afford not to work at least a little.  So, what would you do if you weren't an MT??  Would it be worth my while to try to take some online classes to get a different degree with this MT background?  Any opinions are great.  Right now I am coming up empty handed.