Actually, Alfalfa, I did just that. I quit a very good position as the District Director of the largest tax preparation firm in the US in Washington DC on my 29th birthday and decided to follow my heart and do what I wanted to do, money be damned. I took a 60% salary cut and became a Commercial Diver in the Oil Fields worldwide. That was in 1976, for the next 15 years I did not get up to go to work, I got up every day and went diving (it's a mental thing). Something I had always paid to do, I was now being paid to do it. It is how I ended up on these shores back in 82. I have never regretted a minute of it and if I had to make the same choices over again I would do the same thing again. No regrets at all. Actually, it got me a keeper of a wife as well.Alfalfa wrote:Would you leave your well paying job to do something that you are passionate about. Like for instance you have a terrific lawyer's job but you are passionate about acting? would you actually leave and take up acting? If say you have a regional marketing job and you are passionate about asthetics and cosmetology? Would you leave?
Have anybody done this and regret it or enjoyed it? Please tell me your experiences... would love to learn from others.
That's interesting as on my last visit to Singapore I met a Canadian guy who also did deep sea diving in the oil industry in a previous lifetime. He now ownes two restaurants in Singapore.sundaymorningstaple wrote:Actually, Alfalfa, I did just that. I quit a very good position as the District Director of the largest tax preparation firm in the US in Washington DC on my 29th birthday and decided to follow my heart and do what I wanted to do, money be damned. I took a 60% salary cut and became a Commercial Diver in the Oil Fields worldwide. That was in 1976, for the next 15 years I did not get up to go to work, I got up every day and went diving (it's a mental thing). Something I had always paid to do, I was now being paid to do it. It is how I ended up on these shores back in 82. I have never regretted a minute of it and if I had to make the same choices over again I would do the same thing again. No regrets at all. Actually, it got me a keeper of a wife as well.Alfalfa wrote:Would you leave your well paying job to do something that you are passionate about. Like for instance you have a terrific lawyer's job but you are passionate about acting? would you actually leave and take up acting? If say you have a regional marketing job and you are passionate about asthetics and cosmetology? Would you leave?
Have anybody done this and regret it or enjoyed it? Please tell me your experiences... would love to learn from others.
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