If I could do something else for employment today, I would try:

Forest service ranger - You get to be out in nature. You often have housing provided. You are in a remote place, so you could get lonely, but you might have more time to pursue persistent blogging or engage in many satisfying online "relationships".

Administrative assistant - You can entertain your need to be organized, prompt, and efficient. You deal with some unreasonable demands, but since you've already dealt with the demands of kindergartners, this doesn't seem daunting.

Cook - Opportunities to plan abound! You deal with food, temperature, chemistry and very young kitchen assistants. The need to plan 47 options for vegetarians, vegans, obsessive-compulsives and those with allergies adds the mental challenge you require in order to stay level.

Assistant Camp Director - Not the whole enchilada of being the Camp Director, but the planning, creativity and organizing in the camp millieu.

Doe Bay grunt - Work at Doe Bay for the summer, in idyllic surroundings for $10 an hour and reduced-fee housing or a free (?) tent site. It's a beautiful place, and best of all, it feels like running away.

Eccentric, benevolent land lady - The Anna Madrigal kind, the kind you'd like to have around. Probably wouldn't grow pot, though. I'd just decorate and paint and treat my funky, odd tenants like family (if they wanted). I'd fix my own plumbing and build rustic furniture. It would be the ultimate putter. Of course, I'm assuming I'd have enough money to putter without actually having to suffer if someone's rent was late.

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I'm open to suggestions; please recall that I'm a smart girl with a penchant for the kind of underachievement that feeds my soul.