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Career Changes
After years of sitting in a suit at a desk and feeling useless, and after many discussions with my wife, I finally bit the bullet and decided to do a career 180. Today I signed a contract to start my apprenticeship as an electrician.
I absolutely could not take the office politics, the mundanity, the feeling that at the end of the day absolutely nothing had been achieved, or that my job could have been completed by a drunken monkey. I've worked for the government or consulting firms for years, and I never want to be in a suit or an office again.
The guy who hired me commented that he'd never had someone as old as me start his apprenticeship. Surely I'm not the only one who has decided to do a career 180. Anyone else decide to take a different route than the one they originally planned on?
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"Whoever you are, go out into the evening,
leaving your room, of which you know each bit;
your house is the last before the infinite,
whoever you are."
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