Just feeling low and in a bit of a rut workwise the last couple of years...I shouldn't really, but I do.
Here's the situation, let me know if you have any thoughts/advice/suggestions.
Firstly - and most importantly - we have a great family life...all good, very lucky and I know it.
However, work matters often get me dispairing.
The upsides:
Great daily rate (I'm freelance).
Don't have to work too hard much of the time.
Downsides:
No career progression.
Often work late/weekends.
Unimpressive people as colleagues in the main...used to be a graduate profession but not so much anymore.
Old friends/kids' friends' parents who actually have grown up jobs with a bit of status and responsibility...I'm just not in that game any more, even though they think I probably am.
I feel like a well-paid C2 factory/manual worker to be honest. Nothing wrong with that of course, but just not how I might have thought things would work out when I got a great education and started out doing this 20 years ago.
Plus odd hours are more tiring now as I get older.
I can feel myself running out of energy and just wondering what I can do to re-kick start myself whilst earning a living for the family. Mid-40s, should be at the peak of my powers, but now I often shy away from work colleagues and social situations when I used to love that kind of thing.
What the f**k is wrong with me????
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Any thoughts on my mid-life slump?
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JandLandG · 25/02/2014 16:08
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