Has anyone ever...

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Just said "fuggit" and done an extreme life change?
Allow me to explain... I am violently sick of my job and just sort of want to stop doing it and do something else.  Of course having a  normal load of obligations and small children means I can't just stop working.  I'm working to pass the bar exam for a new career, but thats slow going.  Does one keep plugging away in hopes of a change later, or just change now then do it again?  Maybe this is encroaching 40-ness, but I'm out at sea here.  Sorry, sort of venting here, but input is welcome.
Confus-Ed

[The Burgomaster]

I would do an extreme life change in an instant.  My major problem is I would need to take a huge pay cut to switch careers and I wouldn't be able to afford my mortgage and other bills.  I've made myself a prisoner in my own life.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I would do an extreme life change in an instant.  My major problem is I would need to take a huge pay cut to switch careers and I wouldn't be able to afford my mortgage and other bills.  I've made myself a prisoner in my own life.

Same here... though maybe not QUITE a prisoner.  However I can't lose too much pay before things get tough.
-Ed

[Psycho Circus]

I was a recluse for nearly two years. One day I just got up, got on a train to another town, met a girl and haven't looked back since. I've had plenty of negative "fuggit" moments in between, one where I quit a job, shaved my head and left my girlfriend, but then ended up on the streets for 6 months. After that, I clawed my way back up "the ladder" only quit another job, realised I wasn't being true to myself and grew my hair back again, only to turn into a listless psychopath.

[The Burgomaster]

About 12 or so years ago I got a job offer to work for Channel 2, the Boston PBS TV affiliate.  Part of my job would have been helping to coordinate various shows.  I would have done things like scheduling voiceover artists and studio time, making sure we had the correct union contracts and the proper insurance, etc.  Unfortunately, it would have been about a 50% pay cut (partially because it was a non-profit TV station).  Reluctantly, I had to pass up the job.  This has always bothered me.

 

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Yeah I know the feeling... I drive over an hour each way because I just can't make the same money closer to home.
-Ed

[claws]

I quit my job of 12 years two years ago because it was making me sick. One day I actually said "fuggit", signed a notice to quit and that was it.
It took me 1 1/2 years to recover and to get it all out of my system but I'm back to my old health and feeling better than I ever did.
I regret wasting 12 years of my life, should have quit much sooner. Would've spared me lots of pain and suffering.

[Raffine]

Looking back I tend to do this periodically in my life.

After graduating high school I sort of shocked my friends by not going to the Univerisity most of them were attending. It was ugly and flat and looked like a factory! Instead I found a school clear across the state with great old buildings (chock full o' ghosts!), huge oak trees, and lots of rolling hills and ponds.

Next, after a few years I said 'Fuggit' to teaching and living in Montgomery, AL. I quit my job and moved to Charleston, SC. After a couple of years teaching there I said 'Fuggit', quit my job and moved to the Florida Keys. After a couple of years of basically beach bumming and working in a music shop, I moved to Middle Tennessee to help my sister out with our parents, who were both very ill.

I was in Tennessee about fourteen long years when the wanderlust struck again. I quit my job I'd had all that time, cashed in my retirement, and move to my current home of Savannah, Ga, where I'm loving it. In a few years.. who knows?

It's not the type of life I'd recommend to most. It helps to be unmarried and have no kids. Some folks tell me I've missed out on the best things in life (usually after they finish complaining about their current/ex spouse and how the brats are rotten and driving them crazy ) but it's a bit like being born without ears. If you never had 'em you don't miss 'em!

One thing I do regret is not keeping up with a lot of folks who were very important to me at different stages of my life. I admit I usually find it depressing when I do contact someone from 'the good old days' because they usually try to make me feel guilty about not being there anymore and then they start complaining about the same old stuff they were complaining about ten years ago!