 Torn between two decisions!
Hello All,
This is my first post here. Next month I will receive about 40,000 euros from selling my mom's house, who died last year in September. I am 38 years old and studied guitar in college. Music was always my big passion but for various reasons I never made a career of it. For the last ten years I have had all sorts of jobs, none of which I ever liked. At the moment I work as a sales administrator for a big company. It's a boring job, far below my capabilities as well, and I really don't like working there. I read Steve's post on how being employed is a dead end and I totally agree. I would love to start the musical career I should have started years ago, but here's my dilemma: I don't have my own living space. I am renting just a single room in an apartment, that I share with two other guys. I am really miserable in it, because the walls are paper thin. One of my roommates sleeps until noon every day so I can't practice guitar as much as I wish. Also, I feel really bad about being 38 and not even having my own place. With these 40,000 euros I am getting I thought I might be able to buy a place myself now, but it would mean I'd have to stay at the job I hate. On the other hand, I was thinking I could use the 40,000 to easily live off of it for two years, so I'd have plenty of time to start working on my music career fulltime. But then I'd still be hating where I live. I don't know which one of these options is the best. On the one hand I hate my job, but I think I hate living where I do at the moment even more! I don't know what to choose to do with the money and I'm very afraid of making the wrong choice! Excuses for the long post :-), any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Manuel
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