I would love any advice or thoughts you could offer on the below situation. I'm stuck and I'd love to get some outside perspectives on my situation.
I just don't feel comfortable talking to anyone about this in my personal life. I'd be happy to elaborate or provide more info. Thanks in advance for reading. Here goes:
I am 33 years old and work as a recruiter with a small recruiting company in northern NJ. I have the best boss you could ask for, but I don't think I'll be able to retire here, because the business is very much a product of my boss's personal connections, which I think will start to dissipate in the coming years as my boss nears retirement (maybe 10 years at most). In addition, because of the size of the company there really are just two positions, recruiter and owner, so I can't really get promoted into a higher-paying role. Finally, I suppose there could be the option of succeeding my boss as owner, but that is obviously no sure thing, and for what it's worth, I don't really want to do that (that's based on 10 years working here -- again, love my boss, just not sure this is the field I want to be in).
So, based on the preceding paragraph, I think I'm going to need to find a new place of work in the next few years, both because I want to increase my income and because circumstances may force my hand. The easy option might be seeking another recruiting job, but my concern is I don't really know what recruiting is. I know for a fact we don't use many of the basic technologies used by our competitors, and frankly, in addition to recruiting, I do a lot of non-recruiting tasks here (QuickBooks, applying for the company's worker's comp, scheduling maintenance) such that I'd have a lot to learn anywhere else, and they might, justifiably, offer me LESS than what I currently make. My last reservation about recruiting somewhere else is that I feel very uneasy not knowing a "hard skill". I don't really know how to do anything you need to go to school for, so if I were to lose my job I think I'd have a VERY hard time finding another, particularly in a downturn. I remember a few years back I'd routinely meet middle-aged people applying for entry-level jobs after being laid off, and the common thread was that they were all liberal arts grads working random jobs in offices. It was so easy for their employers to automate their job away or replace them with a fresh-faced college kid for half the money that they did just that when the market crashed. I really don't ever want to be in that situation.
I'm wondering if I should go back to school. As a Political Science grad (yikes!), it would seem I'd have a long road to hoe if I went back to college, as any good ROI degree would require all new pre-reqs in addition to the more advanced classes. Not trying to be a wuss about it, but also not trying to spend additional years and dollars if there's a better way.
As an alternative I've looked at IT. Programming seems like it has a good future, and I like the sound of ~$20K for a bootcamp and 6-10 months of time compared to what I'd need to do to get a second bachelor's.
If it helps, my goal for increasing my income in the long run is getting married and having kids. I know people say 33 isn't that old, but I really don't want to just be getting started with a family much later than now. But maybe I just missed the boat in that department and need to find a new purpose in life.
Some background if it helps:
Single, never married, no kids
Currently take home $868/week.
Spend $650/week all in (that includes rent, health insurance, etc.) I'm new to the site and am prepared to be hammered on that number lol - I'll gladly take the advice
Have ~$70K in savings and checking accounts
Have ~$19K in IRA (my job doesn't have a 401(k)
No debt
Car situation: my job pays for my gas, I pay for everything else. I own it outright and it's probably worth $7K.