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Well I'm 30. I'm so sick of everything. My regular TV shows, work, and life in general. I want to head off in a new direction, find some new TV shows I like, find a new job, learn new things (electric guitar is something I've thought about forEVER), and I am at the point in my life where I have the money to do all this stuff with. Unfortunately the economy is s*** and I can't find a job I want in my field for the pay I want to live comfortably (meaning being able to afford my own place). So, I have to tough it out and stomach the job until the economy turns around. But, the other stuff I can at least afford to do and have fun with. :cool:

 

Has anyone else done this or felt like it? Like they were sick to death of everything they were doing and wanted to re-invent everything about themselves? If so, did you do something about it? What did you do? How did it turn out?

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Yes I did just that when I was you age. Got a different job, joined the Nat'l Guard and took up skydiving and motorcycles

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I decided to finally go back to school to pursue a visual career (interior design) after working for 12 years in a verbal career (magazine journalism). I'm halfway through the degree program, which is incredibly challenging, but I'm loving being back in school and meeting new people.

 

If you can't find a new job, then I'd highly recommend just going back to school and taking classes in a field you've always wanted to try. I work full-time but I work from home, so it makes my schedule flexible enough to take two courses at a time. Plus, I'm taking them at a local community college--which is excellent in the city I live in and super affordable. If you don't have that flexibility, you could take evening courses, but I think school is one of the best ways to expand your horizons and experiment with new ways of thinking.

 

I also started reading again--I asked friends about new authors that I'd never read before, and then started working through the reading list. After I'm done reading another thoughtful book, I see the world in a new way.

 

I'd also recommend doing just one thing you've never done before--travel to a new country, start a blog, take a kickboxing class, TAKE ELECTRIC GUITAR LESSONS, whatever. Doing something new, preferably if it scares you a little, is one of the best ways to break out of a rut.

 

And ditch television (or at least ditch the idea that television is a portal to a new direction). "New tv shows" is not the way to build a new life!

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LOL @ BelleVie - Well, it's not really an idea/portal towards building a new life to me. It's just one of the small things I'm sick of. I actually watch very little TV but I've been trying to get back into watching old TV shows I used to enjoy and turning on some on the TV but everything sucks. There's *nothing* that even remotely interests me anymore. So I'd have to agree with you on that.

 

However, there's a problem. I just finished a college certificate in a field I enjoy and it just so happens that the friggin' economy has to suck as I finished it so I can't do anything with it. Forget trying to advance in my current company - opportunities are few and far between and I'm already one of the highest paid so even if opportunities came up they would not result in higher pay. I've been taking a semester off for this reason - to recharge and figure out what the hell to do as I move towards getting a new place. But I can't really find anything. I don't want to do the college thing again because it's resulted in me being in the SAME EXACT PLACE as I am now - no significant change in life and nothing accomplished to my name except a piece of paper.

 

The whole thing's driving me nuts so much that I want to move to the opposite side of the country and start a new life...or something. Maybe I'm in the wrong place?

 

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I've been taking a semester off for this reason - to recharge and figure out what the hell to do

If you can afford it, why not take a 3-month leave of absence and go bum around Europe...or maybe just Italy, or Spain...or Australia? Ask you doctor pretty-please to give you a "ShadowBlue is highly stressed and about to explode if he doesn't get a leave of absence" note -- your HR oughta be satisfied with that :)

 

If you can comfortably afford only 1 month -- or 6 months (basically as MUCH as you can get away with, job-wise and money-wise) I say, just go for it!

 

I wish I woulda done that when I was 30. But I got married instead. And divorced some time after that :laugh:. Now I'm ancient and, once in a while, I get that feeling that you're having.

 

Now. I know when I was 30, and some ancient person telling me all this, I woulda just said, "Ah...the ancient person," and woulda ignored it. Which you can do. But you will have SO MUCH MORE FUN if you do exactly what I tell you: go bum around in Europe...or Australia. Heck, even if you can't afford it, go do that ;)

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Well I'm 30. I'm so sick of everything. My regular TV shows, work, and life in general. I want to head off in a new direction, find some new TV shows I like, find a new job, learn new things (electric guitar is something I've thought about forEVER), and I am at the point in my life where I have the money to do all this stuff with. Unfortunately the economy is s*** and I can't find a job I want in my field for the pay I want to live comfortably (meaning being able to afford my own place). So, I have to tough it out and stomach the job until the economy turns around. But, the other stuff I can at least afford to do and have fun with. :cool:

 

Has anyone else done this or felt like it? Like they were sick to death of everything they were doing and wanted to re-invent everything about themselves? If so, did you do something about it? What did you do? How did it turn out?

 

 

Stick with the guitar. I'm tellin you.... Music is seriously the best medication.. I started playin bass, cause I'm a failed guitarist ;)

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If you can afford it, why not take a 3-month leave of absence and go bum around Europe...or maybe just Italy, or Spain...or Australia? Ask you doctor pretty-please to give you a "ShadowBlue is highly stressed and about to explode if he doesn't get a leave of absence" note -- your HR oughta be satisfied with that :)

 

If you can comfortably afford only 1 month -- or 6 months (basically as MUCH as you can get away with, job-wise and money-wise) I say, just go for it!

 

I wish I woulda done that when I was 30. But I got married instead. And divorced some time after that :laugh:. Now I'm ancient and, once in a while, I get that feeling that you're having.

 

Now. I know when I was 30, and some ancient person telling me all this, I woulda just said, "Ah...the ancient person," and woulda ignored it. Which you can do. But you will have SO MUCH MORE FUN if you do exactly what I tell you: go bum around in Europe...or Australia. Heck, even if you can't afford it, go do that ;)

 

 

I agree. This is a good idea. Get off the merry-go-round and get a fresh perspective for a bit. Also, perhaps you need to take a break FROM the TV. Frankly, I find that the kind of people who get the attention, press, and platform for their inane ideas these days are vacuous idiots, and it makes me depressed to watch it too much. So maybe turn the TV off and go on an extended vacation.;)

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Hmmm...perhaps I shouldn't have put the TV thing in my subject line when it's a small part of everything I'm sick of (explained in an earlier post). Oy vey.

 

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Does this have to do with turning 30? I'm your age and I swear I'm going through the exact same thing. I wanna quit my job as a research analyst to be a bar tender in another country or a scuba diver in a local oceanarium. Or be a strawberry picker in aussie. I just don't have the gut to hand in my white envelope.

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Does this have to do with turning 30? I'm your age and I swear I'm going through the exact same thing. I wanna quit my job as a research analyst to be a bar tender in another country or a scuba diver in a local oceanarium. Or be a strawberry picker in aussie. I just don't have the gut to hand in my white envelope.

 

@iwanttolive - Not sure!!!! Perhaps it does? Maybe a mid-life crisis or something - who knows? All I know is it's not really getting better and I need a long vacation or something like that - perhaps a change in EVERYTHING for awhile - STAT! I totally want to but my feelings are compounded by having NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what I want to do. IMO, it's better to have something coming in in terms of income than to just up and leave suddenly for something I have no idea what to do with...so...I guess!

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