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    stevehm
    Joined: 28 Nov 2012

    I can relate to what most of you have been saying. I am now 50 and am going back to what I loved in college. I spent my post school years and most of my twenties not knowing what to do. Was nearly thirty before settling down to a mental health nursing career and having a family. Didn't nurse for long before getting into policy for a decade, then into research based jobs. I chucked in office work in January to retrain as a psychotherapist. It's the best decision I think I've ever made. Partner thinks I look ten years younger since I stopped work. If there's something you love doing, just do it if you can take the risk. My kids are grown up and I no longer have to be tied to a monthly pay check. Every day now I feel so lucky to be in this position.

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      madmonday
      Raw and Unwashed
      Joined: 13 Oct 2009

      I appreciate reading threads like this.

      Great stuff 😉

      head high, middle finger higher

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        Giles
        IHUK Crew
        Joined: 22 Sept 2009

        @stevehm:

        and am going back to what I loved in college.

        Me too.  Fishing and drinking…..(My first degree was Fishery Science, but I got chucked off that - probably because of the drinking.......)

        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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          stevehm
          Joined: 28 Nov 2012

          @Giles:

          @stevehm:

          and am going back to what I loved in college.

          Me too.  Fishing and drinking…..(My first degree was Fishery Science, but I got chucked off that - probably because of the drinking.......)

          [emoji23]
          Excellent choices, but Giles you're a denim/clothes geek and have turned something you love into a way of making money. You run a fantastic business and part of that is your passion for the products. With time to do other stuff you love doing, like drinking and fishing. You're living the dream, as they say and whilst this isn't always easy it's extremely rewarding.

          I have met and come across many people who have managed to do this in third wave coffee, in food, in cycling and motorcycling and all sorts of other stuff I'm geeky about as a consumer. My partner is a journalist, she saved up her pocket money when she was twelve, bought a typewriter, taught herself to touch type and made a career doing what she loves.

          I also have lots of friends who are not passionate about their jobs, they are extremely unfulfilled and unhappy.

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            Giles
            IHUK Crew
            Joined: 22 Sept 2009

            Thank you Steve….

            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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              Seul
              Joined: 24 Nov 2009

              I'm very passionate about my only full time job: drinking.

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                HHPI
                Joined: 31 Mar 2015

                There is no emotion, there is peace.
                There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.
                There is no passion, there is serenity.
                There is no chaos, there is harmony.
                There is no death, there is the Force.

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                  Robb Yurisko
                  Raw and Unwashed
                  Joined: 10 Sept 2022

                  What did you decide on…… ?

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                    seawolf
                    Mod Squad
                    Joined: 28 Oct 2011

                    I just spotted this thread, and it's relevant to my interests, as I'm in the midst of a job change myself. I left my last job last year, and I'm in school full-time studying Industrial Design. For those who don't know what an industrial designer is, they're the ones who designed the shape of your cell phone, your car, that chair you're sitting in, your electric toothbrush, your lamp, your coffee maker, etc. It's a really interesting industry, and I'm really enjoying the educational journey.

                    “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman

                    @zeebeeleather

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                      mclaincausey
                      見習いボス
                      Joined: 12 Apr 2013

                      Have you read “The Design of Everyday Things,” @seawolf ?

                      It’s kind of ruined me. I look for affordances everywhere and get irritated when they’re missing. Like when a pull handle or push plate is on the wrong side of a door.

                      Think it, be it.

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                        seawolf
                        Mod Squad
                        Joined: 28 Oct 2011

                        @mclaincausey:

                        Have you read “The Design of Everyday Things,” @seawolf ?

                        It’s kind of ruined me. I look for affordances everywhere and get irritated when they’re missing. Like when a pull handle or push plate is on the wrong side of a door.

                        I haven't! But we talk about stuff like this in school a lot.  😃

                        “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible” - Don Norman

                        @zeebeeleather

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