In talking with a friend of mine yesterday, I realize exactly why I, and so many of my friend are going through this mini-life-crisis around the age of thirty.
In your twenties it’s all about getting stuff…
The degree
The job you studied to get
The first house
The new car
The husband or wife and maybe even children.
So by the time you’re thirty you have all of this, and you’re thinking, “Now what?” Having all of that didn’t make you feel like you thought it would. Somehow there’s still a yearning for something.
So there becomes an urge for change. The urge to make life more satisfying, more rewarding.
And you find yourself in the position I’m in, and most of my friends are or have been in…”Well, I’ve been working in this industry for about eight or ten years now, and I’ve got the job I always hoped for, but it’s not enough. I want to work at something else… but what?”
Some of us are lucky to slowly transition into something different through our job, others go it alone starting their own business doing something similar to what they were working at. But for me and many others the puzzling question remains. “What do I really want to do?” And if the job provides no dissatisfaction, it’s difficult to leave.
But when the energy is pushing you so hard that you just need to make a change, then what?
That’s the time to dig deep, and feel what it is you were called to do here. What is your purpose in this lifetime. How are you going to change the world. Deep down we know what we “should” be doing, but just doing it is the hard part.
I will through this blog, chronicle my efforts to rise from the mire to greatness, and through this, learn how to pull the rest of us out too.
