u/BagOfSmallerBags

I have a four year degree in teaching first through sixth grade, but all my work experience is in teaching or camps for 2-4 year olds, half a year of kindergarten, and ~7 years of working an after-school for kids aged 6 to 14.

I love my job - right now, I'm an assistant teacher for a pre-k class. But it's not enough money. And there's free pre-k coming to the city I live in soon, so I don't necessarily even have job security unless I apply to work for the government pre-k, which could be even worse money.

The only career I've ever seriously considered other than teaching and child care is something in making video games, but that was back when I was a dumb high schooler. I DO NOT want to be an elementary school teacher - I did student teaching in a well-regarded school in my city, and it was the most miserable experience of my life.

I have no real marketable skills other than working with kids. I'm willing to go back to school or do training, but obviously, I'd prefer not to.

I don't know what to do. What would you do in my shoes?

Prepping my first playthrough and going for Draconian and no objective markers. For folks who are experienced playing on Draconian, just wanted to have you check my work and tell me if I'm missing anything.

All female, all vamp

-Hero

-Monster Wrangler until I learn Wild Side, then change to Martial Artist

-Priest and swap to Sage at earliest opportunity

-Thief until I learn Nose for Treasure, then swap to Sage with book

My thought process is that I basically want (other than the Hero), one character that goes all in on physical damage, and two versatile characters that can do a lot of magic. In the early game, focusing mostly on damage with a Priest to keep us alive, then adding in offensive spells via Sage once we have all the most important utility stuff.

I've heard that certain Merchant Skills are also really good, so I'm wondering whether I shouldn't replace one of the options above with a Merchant until I learn service call, then swapping to Sage. Is three Sages good, or will I miss physical damage?

Let me know your thoughts!

Basically, I'm stuck in perpetual indecision over what to build. I'm a relative newbie to making commander decks despite playing on and off for more than a decade, and I only have ever fully built and played a handful of decks.

I want to build something that people haven't seen a billion times, and something that people won't be annoyed seeing. I'm not tryna play mill, stax, land hate, etc.

So yeah, tell me about what you wanna see more of in your pod. I'll build that. Or dinosaurs.