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I'm thirty-seven and am in the midst of a drastic career change now. I've worked for many years in advertising/video production and have grown completely sick of it. I'm going into the the health and fitness field. I'm attending the Cooper Institute in July (tuition has been paid, no backing out now!) and will be leaving my current position sometime soon after (when I get offered a job!). You sound a lot like me. I go home every day completely unsatisfied and exhausted from doing nothing worthwhile. I commute for an hour each way to a job I loathe. Lifes just too short for that. I'll take a huge drop in pay but I think the emotional satisfaction will more than make up for it. Actually I'm very good at what I do and I hate it so I figure if I actually LIKED my job then perhaps the skies the limit on my success. I know for sure if I'm never on another location shoot or studio set again it'll be too soon. I say if you can at all pull it off financially, even if it takes a bit of belt tightening and sacrifice, do it. Who knows what gold lies in a happier, more contented future? COngratulations on your new direction and on getting your wife to buy in on the idea. When I first suggested it to my wife I thought I'd get a lot of resistance but she's seen how unhappy I've been and jumped right on the band wagon telling me to go for it. God I love that woman!
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