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Maybe consider going into the trades. A two year apprentice electrician is probably making about the same as you were as a teacher. You are obviously smart enough to get through higher education, so materially, its easy to learn considering the base education level required (usually high school or less). Any one competent will rise rapidly through any company (quite literally show up on time and not be too high). Get your journeyman (5 years/ 10k hours, and guess what you get paid the whole time) and in most states you'll be making 6 figures plus. Plus significant overtime for anything over 40.
You can take all that extra time you don't have to put into classroom prep and do something socially good with it.
I'm not against it and I'm not above it.It just doesn't excite me. I've told plenty of students to go down that path.It's a great idea...
I mean if you are looking for excitement.. Maybe snake charmer?
Otherwise it doesn't seem like you are in a position to find happiness through your employment. It hasn't exactly 'worked out' so far, so maybe you should figure out why you are unhappy and then work backwards to what you want to spend your time doing. Like if being unhappy is what you enjoy, that's fine too, but be real with yourself. It sounds like you've driven head first into a couple walls at this point, and when alternative advice comes around your like "but that wont make me happy", well bro/sis/sib, neither did any of your other approaches. Maybe try something where you don't actually know what the outcome will be.