I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again...

What I’ve learned about myself throughout my working career is that I get bored rather quickly.

Not only with the work, but people as well – friendships and lovers. If you irritate me more than once, chances are I’ll just sort of be over it.

Now before you think I’m a complete heartless fool with commitment issues, let me assure you that is not the case. People in my life who are important to me and visa-versa, can irate me to the max, and I won’t just be over it, seems to be the more trivial things and less important people who bore me, and which I then don’t have an issue at all just moving on.

This is also maybe a topic for another day – for now, let’s focus more on the work aspect of this.

 

As I’m busy job-hunting, again, as I am beyond bored at the current moment (words cannot describe this extent of boredom), I find myself wondering if I should not in fact just make an entire career change, do something completely different?

Then I start thinking that I’ll probably have to do some courses, and start at bottom level again, and all that goes hand in hand with that – training, salary cut, etc; alternatively I could go study again ( albeit that’ll have to be in 2015 – which makes it even worse) by the time I’m done, I’ll have to start looking for a job from scratch with no experience in that field, and all the challenges that go with that. And I’ll be in my early 30’s!!

 

Days like this, I remembered the below, which usually makes me feel better and in control and full of drive:

 

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want.  You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing.  We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it.  And I hope you see things that startle you.  I hope you feel things you never felt before.  I hope you meet people with a different point of view.  I hope you live a life you’re proud of.  If you find that you are not,  I hope you have the strength to start all over again.    

                                                                                                                          – F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

This doesn’t always work – but mostly it helps, and I like to pretend that it was written especially for me…

So, if today (or any other day) you feel the same, and experience some internal struggles, be it about your career, the people in your life, or just plain you, I sincerely hope this gives you hope and strength.