10 years I've worked where I currently work. (I won't say the name of the place)
Been working Pay Roll for the last 5 or 6 years. I started off as a Record Keeper and worked my way up to Pay Roll. Can't say I enjoy it all that much but the money ain't too bad and considering I spent the last 4 years climbing out of debt, I needed the money pretty badly.
This year I received Long Term Service leave. I spent a month in Tokyo this past April and have started wondering "I'm 33 years old; what am I doing with my life?"
Everyone around me is either married, has kids, has a mortgage or what not. Meanwhile I'm the last bachelor of my friends and am completely unsure about what I'm doing long term.
I've been studying Japanese for 6 years now and kind of want to make the jump to Japan just to see if I could survive there...but I have no idea what I would do. I've never taught before (which I've heard teaching English is the easiest way in) so yeah, I'm sort of in that in-between point of "what am I doing?"
If I could find a way to make a living out of it, I would love to be translating for a living. But I have no idea how to even get a foot into that industry.
I have no family (of my own). No mortgage to speak off. No relationship to speak off. Part of me wants to quit but the other part of me thinks "why give up something secure for something that isn't secure?"
Those sort of life questions I've been facing lately. I wouldn't say I completely hate my job. Sure there are people there who annoy me, but I get along well enough with everyone and I do have a good standing within the company (I don't look for trouble, I keep my nose clean and do my job) but there is just a part of me that wonders "is this it for the next 30 years of my life?"