Question Details: I have a full time, Monday thru Friday job. Its a great career and I make good money. But I'm so tired at the end of the day all I can muster is the energy to sit and watch TV, and I feel like the weekend is just catch up time for another exhausting week. Should I give this up and follow my dream of having a more free life where I work but not full time, maybe make a career of my jewelry design business? I've been very afraid to do that but I also feel like my life is just one big tired mess.
2007-05-27 18:56:23 · 9 answers · asked by malibubeach 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Well I wouldn't give it up without making sure you can survive financially...take it from someone who knows! You may find it very difficult to step back into 10 years down the road.
Mind you, if you can do it, you're bound to be a lot happier too...but that happiness can quickly fade when financial woes set in and you would just be trading one set of stresses for another kind!
See if you can't cut back somehow...can you job share at all?
Discuss it with the boss if you are really serious about leaving because if you can find a compromise it may work out well for you.
2007-05-27 19:00:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think a lot of this depends on other factors -- are you single, married, kids, supporting relatives, etc?
If you have given this 9-5 thing the best you've got, and it's really not working, why not make the jewelry on the side until it takes off? That will give you a boost, something productive and fun to do after work, and time to see if this is what you want to do full time.
Then if you still want to do it, ask if you are willing to take the outcome, no matter what? Such as being poor, losing professional ties, risking not being able to support yourself, having to take part time jobs to make ends meet, moving, etc. If that is all o.k. with you -- go for it!!!
You have to dream it to do it!!
2007-05-27 19:15:44 · answer #2 · answered by Still Me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make a career of your jewelry design business.
I'm almost in the same position... I need a website to sell my paintings... then I can quit the endlessly tiring job that I have.
2007-05-27 19:32:20 · answer #3 · answered by caro 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any chance of taking a break Malibu? Maybe you just need some time out. If this is not possible why not do things a bit differently at work (if this can be done of course). One man I worked with was burning out fast until one day he brought his pet duck to work. After that he contextualised his job and got a lot better. (Yes I know ... it altered the pecking order)
2007-05-27 19:02:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be that you need to do this now(you sound stressed),and find another job similar ,only if you need all the benefits.if you really are ok and do not need medical,etc...branch out for awhile,but these days it is so risky not to have a good health program......
experience..and you do not want to go thru what i did,luckily I went back to same co and my husband lost his job,and went on disibility...but his healthcare does not pay everything/and mine makes up for differences.Check into prices of healthcare,they are staggering...
2007-05-27 19:07:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need a long Vacation, That is why companies give you that time off because they understand that you get burned out doing your job.
2007-05-27 19:05:56 · answer #6 · answered by King Midas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gosh, take the risk and quit your job. your not stupid u can found a way to pay your bills. we are not put on this earth to suffer some crappy job while someone else is living their dream.
2007-05-27 19:06:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
rupture the spell of the ideology of a commodified consumer society so that your repressed desires of a more authentic nature can come forward
2007-05-27 20:32:41 · answer #8 · answered by +balance- 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like to masturbate actually.
2007-05-27 18:58:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋