[snowman]

Sorry, dude, your just to old to start over so live with it. No crap about starting over with some grand occupation that is your live long dream, cause if you had such a dream you would already be living it. Your to highly paid to start a new occupation, ie no one will hire you at starting wages because you already make more than that. So unless you were lucky enough to have selected an occupation that paid you so much you can just say screw it to the world and you can start over, at your leisure, you are quite simply screwed and need to make the most of your fked up life. Learn to like at least some of what you do, its your only hope.

I have seen many people who were in your position, tough luck, really. Its a good reason to push, really push your children to find out what they like, as early as possible, and then to guide them into an occupation that accommodates those likes and dislikes. You only get one big chance for success and its all before approx age 25 or so.

I am one of the lucky ones. From age 4 or 5 I have always know what I wanted to do, and I did it and as a consequence I was very highly paid for it. It was a burning desire, that was just there, no one put it there, it just was. For those who do not have such inclinations I suggest knowing your strengths and weaknesses. Pick a strength and go with it. If possible pick the highest paying strength, as it offers the opportunity to screw up and try something else, unfortunately IT is not that highly paid.

On the other hand you may just be suffering from what is called a midlife crisis. You will get over it. Some need help doing so. So your not Bill Gates, most others aren’t either. You aren’t one of the lucky ones like me that always knew what we wanted to do and would actually pay to do what we are paid to do, well we to have midlife crisis, and its not a whole lot different than yours would be. We just have different perceived problems. And that’s the key, they are perceived problems, not real problems, no matter how real they may feel to us at the time.

So cheer up!!! We are all going to die someday!
someday!