Something I've been thinking about lately;
Say you have alot going for you at home; nearly finished your degree with an almost certainty of a high paying job and stable life. But you don't have a passion for what you are working towards and can't seem to find a proffessional passion, or indeed, you downright hate what you are studying and it is eating at you (my case). The other problem is this city seems to be so downright boring, im going out of my mind just waiting for the repetition; uni/work all week then get drunk out of my brains on the weekend and lie on the beach during the day. Sounds alright, and it is, but it gets as boring as hell after a while.
And there is an idea of, instead of working to holiday (among other things), you think of the few places you would love to spend an extended holiday, and then live there, or rotate working in several places you love and back home for holidays, not for a high paying job, but just one that can make you enough to get by and then a little more and you get to enjoy the place you would otherwise only see once a year at the sacrifice of perhaps respect from your family or a lack of financial certainty and assets for when you finally go back to living in the 9-5 world.
Would you stick with your career (that you do not love) direction permanently, keep going while trying to find another thing that drives you, or bite the bullet and drop it all for the change?
If so where would you work if you could choose two places (5-6 months spent in each per year)?
Seriously considering it, and have taken time off uni to try out snowboarding for a season. I've looked and looked, and no area of study really excites me enough to make me happy.
I suppose on a similar note, ive also been thinking about degrees of wealth compared to happiness. I think I prefer to live in a small, maybe an apartment, rather than a big house. But maybe you have to start with money to see that it isn't everything. In any case, give me internet access, snowy mountains and a friend and I think I'd be in heaven.
Say you have alot going for you at home; nearly finished your degree with an almost certainty of a high paying job and stable life. But you don't have a passion for what you are working towards and can't seem to find a proffessional passion, or indeed, you downright hate what you are studying and it is eating at you (my case). The other problem is this city seems to be so downright boring, im going out of my mind just waiting for the repetition; uni/work all week then get drunk out of my brains on the weekend and lie on the beach during the day. Sounds alright, and it is, but it gets as boring as hell after a while.
And there is an idea of, instead of working to holiday (among other things), you think of the few places you would love to spend an extended holiday, and then live there, or rotate working in several places you love and back home for holidays, not for a high paying job, but just one that can make you enough to get by and then a little more and you get to enjoy the place you would otherwise only see once a year at the sacrifice of perhaps respect from your family or a lack of financial certainty and assets for when you finally go back to living in the 9-5 world.
Would you stick with your career (that you do not love) direction permanently, keep going while trying to find another thing that drives you, or bite the bullet and drop it all for the change?
If so where would you work if you could choose two places (5-6 months spent in each per year)?
Seriously considering it, and have taken time off uni to try out snowboarding for a season. I've looked and looked, and no area of study really excites me enough to make me happy.
I suppose on a similar note, ive also been thinking about degrees of wealth compared to happiness. I think I prefer to live in a small, maybe an apartment, rather than a big house. But maybe you have to start with money to see that it isn't everything. In any case, give me internet access, snowy mountains and a friend and I think I'd be in heaven.
