I will be 50 soon.

In the last 10 years, I had 4 different jobs
- one job was oveseas for 2 years
- one job was with a technology startup
- one job at a bank
- one job at a Malaysian GLC

Different jobs, different companies and different challenges. That keeps me from being too bored.

Usually, after 2 years of same job I start to get bored.

I also had a career break (resign without a job) for 5 months just to chill.

Huh...so young....long way to go....

. I'm 50+... and exploring my next level of growth and new area of development ... going to enjoy my peak at the last few years of productive age.... 

Congrats on securing a new offer so quickly! Now that I know (from one of your other threads) that you’re writing from Aotearoa, Land of the Long White Cloud, I can’t help but wonder whether the way you feel may have been influenced by the environment in which you find yourself, or been affected by the friends (or lack thereof) that you keep.

You mentioned in that other thread that you keep mainly to yourself and your family, and that your friends are rather superficial in the sense that they are good for a beer after work and that’s about it (apologies if my recollections are not entirely accurate). Could this be one of the factors contributing to the problem?

Yes either u r burned out

Or u r bored

Find some motivation

yeah, i agreed whereby career is no longer primary focus.
For me, if I plan to retired at 55, it's another 10+ years to go...
Then the question will go back to money, do I have enough retirement fund? 500k? 1m?
I don't know???

Bro my advise to you is just do what u are doing

After certain time we loose passion with work but we do it coz it pays the bill

Once u feel numb even moving companies also doesn’t help. U just feel numb

Take some time off also doesn’t help

The answer to this is just be grateful what u have. Look around the difficulty people have

It’s very much overall perspective

Well mine midlife crisis is different I’m 44, my single mom have to be admitted in back in hometown. Didn’t expect her dementia condition to happened way much earlier.  I was expecting about 10 (nearing my retirement age) more years so I can retire n stay with her back hometown, but oh well, things don’t go as planned. If she is still ok today, I would still be working in this non profit as I like my colleagues and the work I do into foreseeable future n wages is not priority

Now it really shaken me up, coz nursing home is not cheap and the cost of elderly care will just go up in the future. I have to find another higher paying job to cater for this eventuality.

And yes , looking at the Jobstreet postings, it’s very intimidating & terrifying reading the JD , as I’m IT mgr for 18 years here but also does the works of Marcom/finance/admins/operations/etc. it’s very depressing & having anxiety

Bored to tears. In fact I get bored easily after working at the same company for 2 years. Been trying to look for a new job but the salaries offered by other companies are low AF. Like TS, I'm losing my direction in life too 😔

Hi there,

38 and will be 39 in 6 months time. Been working in construction industry as QS since 2010, but have to learn the rope of being a project manager under a new company i went into this year.

The whole experience makes me feel futile as my salary still remain the same since 2016, as I tried my best to learn and explore.

Got let go on 2021 due to my incompetency despite the company promised to teach me as i said i was willing to learn, then i walked into a company that the boss promised all the benefits but never delivered due to his own hubris, and he still owe me half a month salary and one year worth of EPF.

Now under new company, i feel like i never progress at all salary wise, I feel stagnated despite jumped ships for past 8 years. I am burnt out, and I have no where to go cause these QS knowledge is all I have.

The shame of still being single and still living with my parents haunting me everyday, and i make sure i do my parts by helping buying stuff when requested by my parents.

I am thinking of migrating down KL to look for work, but my father already transferred the house ownership to me, moreover, my parents are already in their early 70s, can't leave them alone.

I feel the urge to go solo, as I am planning to start small construction/renovation as side income to supplement my current salary, and hopefully grow from there. I am planning to find small projects via my limited networks that i have with some sub-cons.

I am just tired of fighting and trying to survive. I feel like I have become more whiny, more sensitive, and more stubborn, I don't remember I that negative, I just overall feel jaded and I just want to fade away into anonymity.