I looked into real estate once, did the class and tried it for a bit. In this country, you don't need to have a certification, but passing the class helps, supposedly. I gave it a try, but realized I do not have the personality for sales. You have to have that ability to be persistent, even though you feel like you are bugging people.


As divine says, nursing can be very physically demanding and get harder as you age.

How do you plan to finance additional studies? There are a lot of stories of people that take out loans in their 40s-50s to retrain, and they end up with a lot of student loan debt and hit the wall of age discrimination and not having experience in their new field of study.

Can you look into ways to improve your salary in your current field? I'm not too familiar with what you do, but maybe there are shorter certifications or courses that could make you more marketable. Could you move more into a management role in your current career?