Just got back into gainful health care employ after a 5 year experiment in entrepreneurship. Consider well the words of Martin F-expand your skill set into health-related areas. IME there has never been a long-term oversupply of entry-level health care workers-home care attendants, ER techs, patient care techs, aides, orderlies. The positions tend to be filled with a few lifers and a lot of folks in transition-pre med, nursing students, moonlighting paramedics and firefighters. The work can involve heavy-lifting, dealing with explosions of bodily secretions of various hues, and some...interesting...olfactory experiences (note: typically the foot with the maggots is cleaner and smells better than the foot without the maggots). Pay is not great, but the folks you work with tend to be nicer than average, and there is generally lotsa overtime available. Improves your first aid skills, gives you informal access to physicians and nurses. And there is Empire College, which lets you pursue a AAS in nursing through distance learning while working. Not a bad deal.