[Dani]

You sound like me 2 years ago Ironstar.

I had a very well paying IT job, between 6 - $800 a day, but I was absolutely miserable. I like programming and I am pretty good at it, but day in and day out the same thing with no creativity just got to me.

But the job was too good to give up and start again. Or so I thought.

What I realised, was that I was spending like a madman all the money I was earning just to prop up my happiness. I was spending at least a grand a week on clubbing alone, and I didn't even really enjoy them.

I eventually took an extended holiday to Japan to visit a friend for a month, and realised how much life I was missing.

6 months later he offered to let me take over his apartment and furniture in Japan because he was coming back to Aus. I jumped at the chance and quit my job the following day. 3 weeks later I was on a plane to Japan.

The income drop was significant, but it is coming back up. But more importantly it was worth it. The thing with life is, it respects people taking educated risks and rewards them accordingly.

If you are unhappy with your life, I am betting a lot of it has to do with the fact that you either have no goals right now, or feel you aren't working towards your goals, because of your job. Either of these are a surefire recipie for being miserable.

I would suggest working out what you -want- to do. When you do something you love, the money will follow.

You might take a pay cut for a while, but your life will shift to match that, and in a couple of months you won't even notice the difference. I don't notice it now, I feel like I live basically the same life I did when I was earning more than 4x as much except I love it now. I am doing what I want to, life coaching and business building, and everything just comes to me as and when I need it.

Interestingly enough, I wrote a post on my new blog yesterday about exactly this topic.