Nope, i'm really hating my job now...I have several days (starting to be everyday as of late) that I wake up with the "I'm not feeling it" thought. I'm committed to going because I have to make some sort of living. I absolutely refuse to not work and poor. The other job I wold like to be doing would pay a lot more than I'm currently getting paid.
Get busy living, or stay busy dieing.
If you know what you want to do, then the next step is to ask yourself, each and every monday... "What can I DO, THIS WEEK, to get myself One Step Closer toward the job I want?"
If education is desired and that's saving for school... then that's what you do...Ask yourself, every time you spend money unnecessarily... "do I need this? or would the money do me more good saved for school "
If it means making contacts that you don't have, then quit the Joe Job you have now even if it means taking a lower paying job that's even one degree closer to your goal.
The smartest thing I ever did was 30 years ago... I quit a $10/hr job in a field nowhere near what I wanted to be doing to take $3/hr job as an apprentice in a field that was RELATED to the field I wanted to be in.
That sacrifice of ready cash ( plus 4 hours of commuting every day ) set me up for a lifetime of being self employed in the career I dreamed of.
Stop making excuses, and don't allow yourself to piss away years because you get comfy with the circumstances with which you are currently familiar.
People postpone and procrastinate themselves into being too old and too dependent on the income they have to make the changes that would have made their lives far more wonderful and fulfilling.
One good trick is to sit yourself down and write out, on paper, your 5 year goals. Don't be too specific, like, don't write a dollar figure you want in the bank, or an address at which you want to live...
Think in broad strokes...
At 25 I wrote that within 5 years I wanted to be living in California, and self employed.
By 27 I had accomplished both those goals... and y'know what? It happened almost effortlessly.
Here's the thing... once you have very clearly and very succinctly verbalized your objectives... that can not help but influence every single decision you make thereafter.
Even the smallest of decisions still contribute to the overall direction of your life. They all add up to a momentum that carries you into new choices.
And in the light of real clarity about what you want in life... each choice becomes that much easier to decide upon... because knowing where you are going makes it clear which choice takes you even 1 mm closer to that goal, and which takes you 1mm further away.
The two slugabed posters above will nap their lives away.
True happiness, adventure, and accomplishment is reserved for those who can see that there is plenty of rest in the grave, and that Life is the only time of Action that is available.
DO something.
-or Be nothing.