Accomplish by 40? 50? 60?

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  • canoe1

    You're 35. You've reached your (for now) professional high point.

    You're bored with it now.

    Who hasn't been bored with the same ol' no matter what it is?

    I never knew this before I practiced it, but my grandfather told an uncle of mine about reinvention... every 5 or 10 years depending on your age.

    If you think you're truly depressed, save up some money and travel and/or do things that you've always loved and gets you outside.

    All the love in the world, KH

    • By reinvention, I'm pretty sure he meant new aspirations and skills, rather than an acute deviation. Like for you, what areas of our world haven't you exploredcanoe
    • I feel like I'm blowing wind into someone who's shot holes in their parachute. Because when you say "retire" that's pretty strong, especially when there's no...canoe
    • vision of what retirement means. Many people would think that means you have enough money to live under your means until 85.canoe
    • I take it as, you're done. Done with the computer, done with the client, done with the frivolous products, the ethics perhaps, there's a lot of compromise...canoe
    • in commercial work.canoe
    • Reinvention? Most people don't have hobbies, no wonder their life is miserable, get some fucking hobbies and carry ongrafician
    • Also I don't think I know one single creative person retiring, this "path" is for life
      We're very fortunate to take it
      grafician
    • You'd have to talk further with the deceased to know exactly what he meant. He did carry a family-named business to my Dad. So I presume he was talking about...canoe
    • taking a hobby or a path very seriously. When he passed we uncovered that he had taken calligraphy, branding, communication art classes as it were.canoe
    • Re: #path. It always appears to me that noncreatives crossover to the creative world in the sense that they open a restaurant or a farm or an etc.canoe
    • As far as creatives moving into finance or real estate or an etc, that probably doesn't happen too often. But a creative moving into another creative field is..canoe
    • progress.canoe

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