I'm at a crossroads in my life. The last five years I've been a stay at home dad, and it's been the best five years of my life so far, but with the little guy going off to kindergarten this year, I need to find something else to do. Before that, I was a technical writer, which I went to school for and originally I loved, but over the years I came to dislike (mostly for the office environment / politics). I've also had some success as a creative writer (and some failures), but it's probably something I'll never be able to actually make a living at. The thing is, in my situation, I'm extremely fortunate in that it's more about having a calling and purpose in my life than it is about making a living (my wife is a ridiculously talented creative entrepreneur, and I supported her when she was launching her business and she'll support whatever I decide I want to do with the next chapter of my life). But I'm not sure what that calling is right now. For me, the next couple months are going to be about making those decisions. The closest thing to a plan I have is a creative bucket-list... a list of things I want to create during my life, from graphic novels to screenplays to video-game scripts to board game design (I've already ticked both literary fiction novel and genre-fiction novel off the list.) But it's hard to get from that list to an actual plan for my life, and a bunch of unrelated creative projects isn't what most people would consider a career.
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