I was recently laid off from working at my last job. I’ve been unemployed for a while now and it’s been hard. I don’t want to be unemployed for the rest of my life. I’m not going to lie, I’m terrified, but I wouldn’t change a single thing. The only thing I’m doing is preparing to start over again.
Well, that’s right, you’re finally doing something entirely new. Or, at least the part of you that does what you want to do. I’m sure that a lot of you have done something completely different before. And maybe even a lot of you have at least considered it at some point, but you were afraid to because you were too scared that you’d be stuck in boring old job for life.
The problem is that in business you spend a lot of time learning new skills and learning how to do the job the job is designed to do. But in life you spend so much time doing things that you don’t get to do at all. That’s why you have to get really good at something. It’s also why you might be afraid to do something that you love.
I see the whole new career thing as a way to get back into the game. Sure, it might take a lot of work and maybe not be what you want, but you can get back into the game by doing the most important thing you have to do: working in business. The best way to do that is to get really good at what you do. In life you have to make choices. When you make the wrong decisions you can’t always control the consequences.
If you’re like me, and you get into a really bad slump and just want to lay around, then I’d say you might want to consider a career change. Sure, you probably can’t be an engineer, but I bet you can at least pretend to be one for a while.
I’ve been thinking about this for a long time and I think you’re right. I’m retired from the gaming industry, but I’m also a writer. I’ve got a lot of writing projects I’ve been working on, but I’ve been giving it all away to someone else for a while. In my case, the writing projects are a side hobby I’ve been doing for a while now.
You can’t really be a writer and not play video games.
At least you can always pretend to be someone else. But I think you have a point. I bet there is a whole new industry out there for the unemployed and retired internet writer/designer. You can be a designer for a living, but you can also freelance and be one of those guys who writes blogs and sells stickers.
That’s exactly what I plan to do. I have a few ideas I’d like to get off the ground, but I’m not ready to begin that process. I’d rather be a writer, a designer, and a blogger.
I just wanted to let you know that I can still read as a normal person, but its more difficult to pretend to be a normal person. I have to fake being a normal person with a new haircut and a new wardrobe. I can still sit at my computer and read articles and blogs, but I can’t pretend to be someone I used to be.