Well, if you already know you want to do something different...
And I was just thinking of you as taking a sabbatical from the conventional working world.
I guess you just really have to listen to yourself.
I'll give you my little rant of hindsight/regret.
I've worked at the Post Office a long time and could never understand why I let myself get stuck there.
While in college, I worked for IBM and learned primitive code and did well with that.
I wanted to move out on my own and the post office paid 3 times what IBM paid.
In the early 90s I met a guy who had worked at Apple but he was getting "old" for them and he was not a fit for them any more so he came to South Florida to develop cell phones etc for Motorola (they're gone now)
He started to teach me other languages etc and encouraged me to get really good at MySQL. Of course this was before web design and the intertubes, but he knew what was coming because he was in the loop.
I would go happily in to work and tell my coworkers about my new studies, and they would just laugh and call me a fool. Self-doubt crept in and I stopped learning code.
I dropped out of the classes I was taking (mainly full of 30 somethings in other jobs) and my Apple friend, sick of South Florida, moved back to California.
Well the people who stuck with it in spite of their "old age" lol ended up being in on the ground floor of many cool things.
All became happily employed and ended up making more money and contributing more to the world than I have, that's for sure.
Sorry for the rant. The point is, listen to yourself!
This is why Rathji is one of my heroes on this board, btw.
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