As your relationship issues seem to be made that much more complicated by your ex, who seems to want to have his cake and eat it too by moving from one woman to another without any warning, I will focus my efforts this month on considering an alternative career direction for you.
Your reading however tells me that whatever career direction you do take, it will still involve either taking care of or teaching other people's children. From what I am sensing it was not the children themselves who were causing you the most concern, but rather it was friction between yourself and the other employees. To be completely honest with you when you said that you did not feel as though this was the job for you I was told that you will never be truly happy or feel such a deep level of satisfaction in any other type of job than in this one. It is that taking care and instructing other people's children is so consistent with your life purpose as see it, that nothing else is going to really fit the bill when it comes to making you feel that you are contributing to the next generation. With due respect I feel that your own longing to become a mother and the rocky road which your closest relationships have taken have conspired together to make your need to be a mother to anybody else's children that much more urgent than it otherwise would have been if you already had your own. Your strong maternal urge to watch over and protect children will simply not allow you to put this calling rather than career aside and work at something completely different that does not involve children.
The only other way I feel would be to seek professional qualifications as an assistant teacher or to ultimately work in a child health centre. I do not know whether working with children in crisis involved you having such qualifications or whether this was in a semi voluntary capacity, but it could have been the the highly emotionally charged atmosphere where you were working before you quit that overloaded your sensitivity, and thereby made you ineffective in that particular job as you were so stressed out by that time and cared too much about the children in your care, rather than it being a case of you not caring enough.
The focus card for your reading the Four of Pentacles suggests that the income that you can expect to receive from this type of job is nothing especially to write home about (underpaid), but that if you were only in this for the money that there would be many other jobs that would provide you with a much bigger weekly or fortnightly pay packet. To have both a personally satisfying career as well as an adequate income for your needs is going to require you to make some sacrifices and compromises in other areas of your life at the same time, but if you resist this need to change then I do feel that going ahead with this will be largely an uphill battle of major proportions. While it might seem easier to you in the short term to forget about children and do some other job where you are not in daily contact with your clients and customers, in the end I feel that it will eventually come full circle and bite you squarely in the behind.
If you do decide to turn your back on what I believe is an important part of your reason for being here, I sense that it will take much more than a larger income to make you feel that you are once more going with the flow of your life, instead of furiously swimming against it's currents. I am sincerely sorry that I cannot provide you with a graceful way to escape your need to be a "mother" to other people's children, hopefully to practise skills which will be a distinct advantage if you ever have your own. I feel that your current general career direction of taking care of and instructing other people's children is the correct one. It is only I think the finer details of how to best go about satisfying your need to mother children, which requires deeper consideration.
Hoping that these insights have been of some help and comfort to you, although I will understand it if you feel more than a little disappointed with the messages coming through me on your behalf (this was probably not what you wanted to be told at this time),
L&L,
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