i just got out of college with a master's degree in elementary education. the logical next step is go get a job teaching in an elementary school, but i have been on a downward spiral for quite a while and i do not know if it will ever be a good idea for me to work with children; at the very least, it certainly is not now.
i love lexicography (what i should have gone to school for, if not library science) and like to sort and organize things, and i have amateur experience cataloguing and archiving, so i was looking into maybe working at a library or changing paths to become a librarian, but it turns out you sort of need a master's degree or other official academic credentials for that, and i am not immediately in any position to go back to school, so that seems to also be out of the question, at least for the moment.
i am extremely anxious and have struggled in the past with every job i have had (warehouse, coffee shop, cashiering, food court) even beyond interacting with people, so i worry that i am simply doomed to suck at everything. what do you guys do? what have you done? is there anything at all i can do with a master's in elementary education, besides teach elementary students? is it worth it to get neetbux and just volunteer my time?

inb4 "why not teach": i love teaching and i love kids but i just do not think i have what it takes (mentally) to BE a teacher. i learned this in the last year, unfortunately, after having done all the other parts of my degree, during student-teaching.

>>33333738 (OP)
Imagine needing a masters degree to teach a bunch of children who fart and poop. You should have picked something like computer science.

>>33333771
t. farts and poops

but yes, i know. you don't actually even need a master's degree in education, turns out. didn't know that until i was mostly done, either.

>>33333778
Help with special need kids, your local schools probably need them.

>>33333803
i have thought about this and it or other paraprofessional work is most likely what i will end up doing if i cannot come up with anything else, but it worries me. i do not want to have a breakdown in front of the children and it has not happened yet, thankfully, but i have come too close for comfort too many times. i worry especially with SPED that i might be a little too unstable. thank you for the suggestion though, anon. i am not disregarding it

>>33333778
It took u that long to figure that out? You're toast

>>33333824
if i could gesture towards the thread on your screen, i would, nonny.