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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
@you&me those emotions pretty much capture what I'm going through to a tee. Maybe the biggest challenge right now I'm seeing is my 'flame' is burned out. As an ambitious and career-focused person who's always striving for the next thing, right now there's a sense of indifference that I'm trying to rectify. It's been probably the worst 6 months of my life combined with some family/friend health issues on top of it.
All told, going through this is an isolating experience so it's nice to see folks like yourself coming out of it and gaining some valuable perspective under similar circumstances. Appreciate the words of encouragement.
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I'm dealing with something similar as well.
Opened my own real estate office in 2018, did a full build out from scratch, grew a big team and now it's slowly dwindled down to no team and I closed my office last year since the expense wasn't worth it (2 years of covid where no one came in sucked).
Still doing pretty well in my industry but back to being a solo operation after trying to make a big next step that I thought would be my long term game plan.
Now I'm 40 and have a 2 year old and the thought of making a bigger play again seems impossible.
The entrepreneurial spirit changed fast for me where it used to fuel my every move. Now I'm kind of just going through the motions of my job, still very fortunate to do what I do, but don't know if I can swing for the fences again.
I've realized for me a lot of my self worth and confidence has been tied into my career successes and it's hard to separate just being a happy/content person from pushing to a new endeavour or career milestone.
I'm trying to figure out how to do the former without needing the latter.