The In-Between Spot

I am currently in the middle of a job search.  One which, ideally, will result in another (new) nanny position, but I am also applying to the school district and other part time openings so as to not close any doors.  Just as it has crept up in other areas of my life, the pestering issue of where exactly in time/place/ & space I fit in has shown relevant to my job search this time around in a way it has not before.  Let me try to explain whats rumbling around in my head....
See now, I am 26 years old and have been nannying professionally and on a mostly full time basis for the last 8 years of my life.  Yes, that is a long time caring for children.  And like I was advising a fellow nanny the other day, there is something about this job that seems to just suck the time away.  Months turn into a year, one year into two and before you know it you're 26 years old and the mothers you are going to interview with are in your age bracket.  This is a job situation I do not want to put myself into. I had no problem working for young new moms when I was 19, but now that they are people I could've been in high school with it just does not sit well with me.  Is this stemming out of my own insecurities of my life situation?  Perhaps
....perhaps for so many years I thought that those families I am interviewing with would be me.  Me at 26, married with a little baby (though never looking for a nanny!) and though my view on life has made a complete change around from the way I used to think I suppose those old dreams are still buried deep in the back of my brain somewhere...or the bottom of my heart.
Another conflict I have run into is that I have so much experience.  I've been nannying longer than some of these parents have been parents.  In some cases I have more education and experience with what is going on.  While I try very hard to maintain  professional boundaries with parents it is difficult when, quite honestly, I know more then they do about their child.  And parents do not like that.
Ultimately the point of this post is this really.  I am a total In-betweener at the moment.  Stuck between student and professional.  Not young enough anymore to enjoy the carefreeness of being young but not in a position in life to have the true responsibilities that would elicit the title "adult".  Stuck between jobs, stuck between majors, stuck between desires of the heart.  Stuck, which means you can't move anywhere.
I never, ever thought this is what 26 would be for me.  I'm not saying that to suggest that its bad because its not.  I have a fairly good life I'd say.  Very onion like (if you are a Shrek fan then you will get that) but stable in that I trust myself and my decisions.  And I believe that as I sit here writing bits of this story now, in 10 years time, so much more of my story will have unfolded to show me that these days were just the preface.