In my second year of a three year PhD program and I now hate research. What career can I do? I have just started my second year in a Health Education and Promotion PhD program. It is a three year program and I will be done with classes after this year. Next year is my dissertation year. Currently I do research and teach.  I started doing research as a senior in my undergrad program and continued doing research while getting my MS in Health Education.  I have a lot of publications and research experience but do not see myself doing research in the future. For the last year I began to realize that I hate research.  I LOVE teaching online and some small classes but I realize that it is unlikely I will get a great career teaching online. I hate to drop out now since I do enjoy learning, taking the classes, and I only have a year and a half left until I graduate. My question is, what can I do with a Health Education PhD that is not research related besides being a professor? Could I use this degree in another field than health education or health promotion? My advisor keeps pushing research but I know I do not want to do that. Thank you!
Contrary to how the world looks from inside of a Ph.D. program, most teachers aren't professors and most professors aren't focused on research.

The professors who educate Ph.D. students are mostly at research-centric institutions, but there's a lot more undergraduates in the world than graduate students, and most higher education institutions are not research-centric.  There are lots of good undergraduate-only institutions out there, which expect their faculty to do at least some research in order to get tenure, but it's far from their primary duty.  Many other higher education institutions are community colleges or other institutions that don't primarily cater to full-time just-out-of-high-school students, and they are even less likely to want research (or give tenure).

Next, don't forget that people spend a lot of time getting educated before they go to college.  There's probably a lot of places to put health education to work both for teenagers and for younger kids in school systems.

Finally, there is also a large and complex educational ecosystem that exists entirely outside of traditional education institutions: companies educate their staff, government agencies, community groups, non-profits, etc. all have populations that they want to serve in various ways.

In short: you've got lots of opportunities, even of none of them is likely to make you rich.