Another option – social work type of jobs. I also have a bachelor’s in psychology, and that qualified me to work as a caseworker for Children’s Protective Services. I could have also qualified to work in Child Care Licensing. You could also look into HUD, FEMA, WIC, and your state agency that does things like Food Stamps, TANF, and Medicaid.

Good luck.

You might want to scour your college transcript to see if you have 5 college courses in any one of those areas. If not, you surely are pretty close–everyone has to take at least 2 English classes, a few maths, a science or two, and both parts of Western Civ, right?

I would suggest that, if you are a course or two shy of the 5 courses in one area, you take ANY college course in one of those areas to bring the number up to 5. (I believe that is true even to the point that if you took English 1 & English 2 at XYZ University, you could still go to your local community college as a non-matriculated student and take English 1&2 for NCLB purposes, but I’d check on that before paying the bill if I were you!) At that point, you are “Highly Qualified” as per NCLB specifications (at least in NJ, but I’m 99.999% sure this is true nationally), and you can claim truthfuly on your resume that you are “highly qualified in ____.”

Also, you might want to pursue middle school teaching credentials, depending on when you completed your teacher education. If it was within the last 5 years, then nevermind; NCLB changes will make this unwieldy. But if it was a while back, then you might be licensed for k-8, but credentialed for, say, k-5. If your licensing allows for middle school, then you can probably take whatever state compentency tests (in NJ it’s the PRAXIS), and away you go.

Good luck! 🙂

I don’t know about California, but here in Texas they’re alway needing teachers and counselors.