Theoretically, I could retire but I’m not sure I’d spend my free time productively as my brain is mush
My plan is to quit the day job at 60 and just do temp jobs depending on what takes my fancy - become a bit of a jobs drifter! I might actually find a job I enjoy! Mortgage is paid off so don't need masses of money. Just enough to cover the bills.
Im enthusiastic about cake
Thats absolutely about it. Apathetic to almost everything else
Bikes are the constant I turn to to keep my head straight, but sometimes I put too much pressure on it to be a long road ride, or something steep and nadgery all the time.
I bought a Giant Revolt gravel bike last month to be my go to, for days like today when it’s pissing down and I just want to get out for an hour or two, and without driving first. It’s a lovely thing to ride on the road, and very fast on old railway lines and hard pack.
It has Rival AXS, my first road bike with discs, and I just get on it and ride - everything works, all the time. That’s a big thing for me, if I’m in a slump, then the gears not indexing or something not being right totally spoils a ride for me. I know how that’ll sound to some, but resonate with others…
Last night I took it out for just a small 45 minute loop in the rain before a family movie night. A quick hose down, dry and lube the chain afterwards: ride and showered within an hour and pressure off 🙂
OK, to the OP, I'm very enthusiastic about some of the things I do outside work.... others, like redecorating the lounge , not so much.
Inside work, I'm lucky, I have a job in a field I'm genuinely interested in, and have enough free rein that I can have a good look at stuff that is of only indirect value to satisfy my curiosity. I still take care to manage my enthusiasm tho' , and keep an eye out for any 'dark periods' ahead.
I think you're not in a job that's good for your mental health. Sales is very target orientated, and you are identifying as aa success or failure based on a simple numeric threshold which to be brutally honest you don't have total control over (everyone underestimates the importance of luck in success/failure). I've worked in software dev and sales in the past, and that soon killed my enthusiasm as well - it's quite unsatisfying, and I like projects with distinct ends and objectives, that may simply die as they don't make sense, and that's ok.
Get a job that's a better fit for where you are now, where the measurement of success/failure is a bit more open. Whinging on here won't fix where you're at if you're not prepared to change the root causes of your dissatisfaction.
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