f(&^ up, move up

the day I wrote the post "warned", or a day or two after, a friend of mine said to me "you know they say in management 'f()&* up, move up'; now they will know how you handle yourself".
Now she and I are both in the middle of the management courses we were chosen for last June. I chose a leadership development course and hers is something similar. So for the last two days I've driven into north Dallas to take this leadership seminar. I've learned a lot, both things you should do and things you shouldn't do; i've also learned that I'm half glad I'm in a public library and half sorry I'm not in the private sector. As our instructor says, "Balance". It seems that everyone has high expectations and too much to do, but the compensation and levels of buy-in certainly differ. I've never been in a room with so many folks who live their jobs and are fired-up about it. It has set me to wondering what I have to change to feel like that about my job. do I need to change my job? do I need to change my attitude? do I need to change the industry in which I work? do I need to switch from public to a private, school or special library? what about a university library?
Do I need to work from home or work for myself?
I love that I can help kids get fired up about reading and books, I love helping folks find the information they need. Right now these two things are not a big enough part of my job and too much of it is spent in solving technical issues (this computer got turned off and now I need a password) and educating upset people about why they have a $20 fine at the library when they brought the videos back. (2 days late, ten videos, $1 each item, each day; they signed agreement with the fines, fees and policies when they received their library cards).
We're also working hard at getting our debt paid off as well as getting out of the city and finding a way of life that allows more time for our family and each other. I'm not seeing right now how these things are going to work together very well. Right now we are buried on my car and might just break even on my husbands car, so we are stuck there for a while. Our house in Indy won't sell until the market improves which may be quite a while, thankfully we have good renters in there at the moment. We are also thinking of moving again, closer to home this time. I'd like to be within a 2 hour drive of Indy so I could see my folks and my niece, my sister and her husband more often. That means that we will be setting ourselves back another year if we move again, again. That will make the 4th cross-country move in ten years. My son's not an army kid but folks sure think he is once they find out he has lived in 3 states already.
Next time, what do *I* want to do?