You have had lots of good feedback here, not sure that I can add anyting startlingly different. Though I do empathise so much with your quandary, I was in the same position in my M, only I didn't even have the option of a potentially well paid job had I wanted it... It is very dismaying when a woman's work in the home and with her family is totally taken for granted and overlooked or discounted. And about not depending financially on your H, it is SOOO hard when you also want to fulfill the Mummmy/Mommy role as well. It is frightening that around me I hear many folk think it is OK to have latch key kids at age 9 and upwards. I have seen just this evening that Quality Time is very much one of my D's Love Languages. It would break my heart to have her return from school to an empty home.
Can you get work writing popular guides to medicine, like for family medical encyclopedias etc? Is there much work in the medical writing field? It would tie in with your urge to educate!
Perhaps you could set yourself up as a mainstream guru, in the mould of Dr Weil? With your "Dear Ellie" website???
Anyway, that's my little contribution, dear Ellie!
Livnlearn
"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates
