I can relate to this post, but I pause at the contrast between this:
"I was given work to do and I did it well. The work wasn't interesting anymore, but it was easy." - "It was just so comfortable."
And this:
"I had plenty of ideas for apps and projects, but couldn't bring myself to build them. I was drained."
I understand feeling of being drained in a job with uninteresting, but stressful or time-consuming work, but not so much in a job that sounds extremely comfortable and flexible.
This combined with the "secretly hoped something horrible would happen" bit reads to me as a sort of mid-career crisis - tunnel vision seeking for some big catalyst that will make everything better, for a while at least.
I expect the author is going to be just fine in any case, but I don't see this as a problem that really necessitates an all or nothing approach. I feel like the tales of quitting, working out of a car, betting the house and whatnot is overly romanticized in general and among startup culture in particular.
"I was given work to do and I did it well. The work wasn't interesting anymore, but it was easy." - "It was just so comfortable."
And this:
"I had plenty of ideas for apps and projects, but couldn't bring myself to build them. I was drained."
I understand feeling of being drained in a job with uninteresting, but stressful or time-consuming work, but not so much in a job that sounds extremely comfortable and flexible.
This combined with the "secretly hoped something horrible would happen" bit reads to me as a sort of mid-career crisis - tunnel vision seeking for some big catalyst that will make everything better, for a while at least.
I expect the author is going to be just fine in any case, but I don't see this as a problem that really necessitates an all or nothing approach. I feel like the tales of quitting, working out of a car, betting the house and whatnot is overly romanticized in general and among startup culture in particular.