I quit my full-time job 3 months ago. I was miserable to the point where it was detrimental to my physical, mental, and emotional health and I have no regrets leaving. I took the summer to volunteer at a summer camp and this Fall, I'm going to start volunteering with another organization to mentor young kids. It makes me really happy to help a community out.
I recently came back from a 10-day trip that I had been planning for almost a year now. It was refreshing, carefree, and enlightening. I saw a lot of things and I experienced a lot of things and I was just so happy. I nonchalantly told myself that I would be looking for a job once I came back, but in all honesty, I don't feel like it. I feel like "extending" my unemployment and take the time to travel more and do more of what I love. I started looking into remote jobs and I'm trying to figure out how to fit them in my schedule if I'm going to travel.
I'm 25 years old and I've never felt so free until now. In the past 3 years since I've graduated college, all I was doing almost everyday was either constantly working or over-stressing myself in the job hunting process. I feel so drained, and not having to worry about that for at least a bit gives me some peace. I'm financially OK for now, and I know that I have to get my grind on again eventually.
I don't want to come off as spoiled or anything, but I'm grateful that I still live with my parents, but I also know that I can't mooch off the free rent for too long. I feel judged by the people I know back home and I've been getting some comments from some of my career-driven friends back here in the States, who say that having a job is "the most important thing". In Europe, I met people from all over the world who were supportive of my travel ambitions and told me that I should take the time to travel and see the world while I can.
Is it so wrong that I want to do something to restore my overall health? At one point, all I cared was upward mobility in my career, but now that I'm looking at a lot of my friends who work very hard, they don't seem happy at all and I really don't want that. I may be hitting a "quarter-life crisis," but I think it's been nice to sit back and try to reevaluate what I want in life.
Submitted September 11, 2017 at 02:55AM by desirepink http://ift.tt/2wUDtuy
