What the hell am I doing with my life?!
32, single, wondering what am I doing with life. Left Microsoft for Google recently and nothing changed. Feels like I have no purpose in life. I feel depressed and sad all the time. Plan to retire tech career and start Farming after I hit $1.5m nest egg (long way to go). Has anyone gone through such phase?
Please do organic farming.
Get married. If still feel empty, have kid(s).
You won’t get any time to be depressed
Don’t do that.
Before you go into farming, please be so kind to refer some of us humble souls for jobs at Google. On a serious note, what were you expecting to change with your move? Is your question driven more because of the dissatisfaction at job or personal life (life outside work)?
Or the lack of personal life outside work?
Despite what you might often hear, your job doesn't have to be the one and only drive for filling accomplished. Having a dream job is a nice utopia, but often hard to reach considering the market cares not for your well-being. Purpose could be found elsewhere, use your dreams and aspirations as guidance, and upon failure, remember you can always dream again. If you also find yourself without aspirations, do some introspection. Find what you like and what you value, and ask if you can see yourself pursuing anything related to that.
Well said!
Dream job doesn't last forever, people and market change over time. Look at Intel and Cisco. Yahoo and Microsoft before Azure.
Hang in there. We are in a rat race. Do some soul searching to understand your motivations and if doing something else would make you happier. I think its normal to have such feelings. See a therapist if you think it's affecting your well being.
Take a sabbatical
Leave Seattle for a sunny place with pretty women and watch your attitude towards life do a 180
Where do you live?
SF. Don’t come here. Lots of great places with google offices, the Bay Area isn’t one of them.
Whats the purpose of life anyways? Eat poop sex kids die ... do whatever but dont go to the rapist
I agree with this advice
Eat poop Sex kids Die
Life is not about purpose, enjoy every sec.
See a therapist