I'm 38, divorced mom of young kids. I was divorced about 10 years ago (can't believe it). I was in a very mentally abusive relationship that left me with a very bad inferiority complex and anxiety and depression. After tons of therapy, I'm happy to report that I'm finally feeling better. However, I've wasted a ton of time working retail and "McJobs" because I honestly didn't think I could handle anything with more responsibility.

I'm currently finishing up a Business Degree at WGU. Initially, the plan was to get into project management. I love research and planning so I figured that would be good for me. But here comes self-doubt and worry rearing its ugly head again. I was looking at a few posts about average days and such and I am starting to think its not a good fit for me. If I'm being honest with myself, I can see myself not doing a good job. Someone said that you have tons of responsibility, but none of the authority. I sometimes have trouble disciplining my kids sometimes how am I going to hold adults accountable?

When I get down to it, I really want 4 things:

- I don't want to take work home or be on call

- I just want to be given work and time to complete it with little to no meetings.

- The ability to work from home at least 80% of the time and not just because of Covid. I have a kid that is high risk.

- The ability to freelance, start my own business. If you've read Four Hour Work Week, this should sound familiar. Since I'm older I may be working past normal retirement age. So I want to get to the point where I have money coming in from investments and possibly part-time/contract work if I can't 100% retire.

I don't need to make big bucks. At least $60k/year is good for me. I really want to get into real estate investing. My goal is to have at least 2-3 properties, then a bulk of my earned income can go into my kid's college funds and savings/investments.

Anyway, I was considering two alternatives.

Salesforce admin/developer. I actually went through a free boot camp. But, web dev made me hate programming. I started up recently, learning to make games with Unity and starting liking it again. Programming itself isn't terrible, I think its just how I tackled learning Web development just frustrated and discouraged me.

Bookkeeping, Taxes, etc. - I can easily switch over to the accounting path. But I'm not sure. As a plus, I'm wondering if its easier to get a job NOW as a bookkeeper/accounting clerk after taking the basic accounting and excel classes. I can still take Accounting instead of Business Management and eventually take the CPA exam.

Can someone lend a hand? Is this decision fatigue? I've been floundering with decision for about a year now. I've been going back and forth. My birthday was a few weeks ago, which reminds me of how old I'm getting. So really need to pick a direction and stick to it.

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Thanks