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Originally Posted by Josh
[I am currently working a job that I have no passion for but that pays very well and allows me to buy and do the things I like. I can also see a path that involves doing a job that would be fulfilling day to day but comparably very low paying.
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I was in
exactly the same situation 30 years ago. Bored out of my skull by an office job (software) which provided no satisfaction, but so much money I didn't know what to do with it. A key moment for me was when I bought a luxury holiday, and the wife asked me how much it had cost. I didn't know, in the travel agency I had forgotten to ask. That was a turning point. It seemed to me I had two choices:
a) sit it out for 15 years, retiring at 50 with enough of a pension not to need another job
b) give it all up on the spot and do something 'meaningful'.
My fear was the possibility of dying young just before retirement, and the immense frustration of having sat in the office for so long only to finish up the richest person in the graveyard. So I decided to give it up and do something which involved ten times the effort for a tenth of the income.
Now, I am still alive, but in a financially unenviable situation, having a few friends who are much better of financially who opted for the easier office-sitting alternative.
Which of us did the right thing? I don't really know, other than having the conviction that sitting in the same office for two to three decades was not for me personally.