If you’re working only for health insurance the question you should ask yourself is what would you do if health insurance was free?
You have the money problem covered, this is huge. You could work in anything that doesn’t pay!
You could do charity, volunteering, teaching. you could get behind a sports team if that’s your thing, you could get competitive at some game. You could get involved in politics. You could open a bar or an art gallery. You could try and live abroad, grow vegetables or learn how to paint, sew, or make things.
You could swim in the sea every day and make octopus friends like the dude in the movie. You could learn how to make movies.
People I know built an ice rink in their backyards for their kids to become hockey players. My cousin went from professional waterpolo player to coaching to marketing and now he works in startups in argentina.
The midlife crisis is about finding other things to do that you find fulfilling besides making money. It’s not very hard but you need to do some work on yourself if you don’t know what you would find rewarding.
Also the awesome thing about being a software engineer is that you can apply your skills to anything cited above. Like Linus Torvalds who made an open source software for logging his scuba dives.
If your depression is what gets in the way, it’s a bit of a catch 22, cause it’s likely that doing something else that you find rewarding will get you out of depression.
Oh and don’t mock the guys who get a Porsche or a boat. Spending is a very effective way to go through the crisis. The “fuck it, I’d just do it” mindset is the right approach.
If you’re working only for health insurance the question you should ask yourself is what would you do if health insurance was free?
You have the money problem covered, this is huge. You could work in anything that doesn’t pay!
You could do charity, volunteering, teaching. you could get behind a sports team if that’s your thing, you could get competitive at some game. You could get involved in politics. You could open a bar or an art gallery. You could try and live abroad, grow vegetables or learn how to paint, sew, or make things.
You could swim in the sea every day and make octopus friends like the dude in the movie. You could learn how to make movies.
People I know built an ice rink in their backyards for their kids to become hockey players. My cousin went from professional waterpolo player to coaching to marketing and now he works in startups in argentina.
The midlife crisis is about finding other things to do that you find fulfilling besides making money. It’s not very hard but you need to do some work on yourself if you don’t know what you would find rewarding.
Also the awesome thing about being a software engineer is that you can apply your skills to anything cited above. Like Linus Torvalds who made an open source software for logging his scuba dives.
If your depression is what gets in the way, it’s a bit of a catch 22, cause it’s likely that doing something else that you find rewarding will get you out of depression.
Oh and don’t mock the guys who get a Porsche or a boat. Spending is a very effective way to go through the crisis. The “fuck it, I’d just do it” mindset is the right approach.