Hummmm....Still waiting on Jon to email me back....I don't think I was asking for any free help....and no...I am NOT a guy!!!!!!!
Are you sure? I mean, Amanda's a guy, and he's the hottest chick on the forum (damn those Korean/Japanese bishonen types that look better in dresses than my own lady and manage to get free drinks out of my by licking my ear every time I go to the bar... but this isn't about me!)
Seriously though, the more I think about it, the more I'm thinking the hole you're in only seems so deep cause you're the one in it, and it's obscuring your entire point of view (I can't believe I kept a metaphor on track).
You were in real estate, and earning enough to support an entire family. Obviously you're a good sales person.
Realise it or not, sales is what most things revolve around nowadays. PR is just selling an image. Copywriting is selling people their own ignorance. etc.
You shouldn't have too much trouble finding another white collar job.
Hell, you could probably make some decent money in aff marketing by running a blog all about revenge against your ex-husband.
Each step of the way has stuff that could be succesfully monetized, if you think about it with some cold logic:
- Getting out of your financial hole - loan offers, debt consolidation
- Paying bills - Employment offers, credit card offers
- New job - Employment offers
- Keeping the family together - cheap stuff to keep the kids occupied
- Keeping the kids occupied while you plot revenge - I dunno, video games or something...
- Getting revenge on the husband pt 1 - weaponry & firearms rev-share, harrassment services, etc
- Getting revenge on the husband pt 2 - Lingerie, dating services, etc
- And let's not forget all those random musings you can have on just random crap that goes through your mind on the way... like how nice it'd be to have some USB slippers with heating elements this Xmas...
There's way more than this, but this is what springs to mind.
The point is if you write it as a nasty vindicitve bitch, it'll get popular really quickly, especially with the feminazis and Dr.Phil crowd.
Enough popularity, you may even get a book deal to republish your blog, etc etc etc