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Let's look at this situation two different ways. First of all, to address specifically what career choices would take best advantage of your degree, I would suggest that you get back into education but try to steer toward an administrative track. You may need to get a master's in education to advance, but I suspect that might have been one of the issues with your prior teaching experience anyway.

Many school districts insist on a master's for tenured teaching positions, and without a master's it sounds as though you were used as kind of a "utility infielder," filling in wherever there was an immediate need. That doesn't create much opportunity to advance. If you can't afford the interruption at this point of your career, consider pursuing the master's part-time or online. If you level the playing field by getting your master's, you might find that your social services experience and bilingual skills give you a little extra edge in pursuing promotion into school administration.

The broader way of answering this question would involve your taking stock of your experiences to date to determine what types of things you really like to do, and where you feel you excel. You have to answer questions about whether you want dealing with people to be the focus of your job, or whether you prefer to be behind the scenes, and whether money is your primary consideration, or you seek other forms of job satisfaction.