'midlife crisis' did you ? are you ? will you ?
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mangocrazy
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Re: 'midlife crisis' did you ? are you ? will you ?
You'd probably need to ask those around me, but I can't recall having a MLC. I was a bit rootless when I moved up to Sheffield in 2000 with no mates about (moved for work), but that passed. And unless I live to around 150 I've probably missed the boat. But I'm not going to go all FOMO about it...
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Rockburner
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Re: 'midlife crisis' did you ? are you ? will you ?
Definitely had one, but it was a bit drawn out.
Quit a job I'd been at for nigh on 10 years: I finally got fed up of bullshit emanating from one of the directors.
Took a few months off to reassess and clear my head, had some bike shenanigans: blew up my Rockster, recommisioned Liz's Triumph Daytona, then bought a K1200R.
Ended up at another dev job which I stuck at for a year until I had a brief conversation with the CEO in the car-park about his new Bentley Bentayga, and realised I was just working at a shit job just to get him that car.
So I quit that job, and my wife at the time was also getting tired of her work-stresses, so we took out a mortgage-extension, boght a van and fucked off from the UK.
Obviously it didn't work out that well: our dog had an accident within a month and had to be put down, and after a year of vanning and house-sitting in France (mostly for ex-pat Brits oddly), she decided she'd had enough of me and we split up, and she got the house.
Going out again for 3 months in the van by myself was the really soul-cleanser / re-boot that I needed, and selling it, and the K1200R, and getting back on a Rockster gave me something of a mental "breakwater"; and I believe I'm now in a much better place, certainly much happier: working for a charitable org where I feel I'm doing something at least vaguely useful to society, and living in a very lovely area of the country with a very lovely person.
Quit a job I'd been at for nigh on 10 years: I finally got fed up of bullshit emanating from one of the directors.
Took a few months off to reassess and clear my head, had some bike shenanigans: blew up my Rockster, recommisioned Liz's Triumph Daytona, then bought a K1200R.
Ended up at another dev job which I stuck at for a year until I had a brief conversation with the CEO in the car-park about his new Bentley Bentayga, and realised I was just working at a shit job just to get him that car.
So I quit that job, and my wife at the time was also getting tired of her work-stresses, so we took out a mortgage-extension, boght a van and fucked off from the UK.
Obviously it didn't work out that well: our dog had an accident within a month and had to be put down, and after a year of vanning and house-sitting in France (mostly for ex-pat Brits oddly), she decided she'd had enough of me and we split up, and she got the house.
Going out again for 3 months in the van by myself was the really soul-cleanser / re-boot that I needed, and selling it, and the K1200R, and getting back on a Rockster gave me something of a mental "breakwater"; and I believe I'm now in a much better place, certainly much happier: working for a charitable org where I feel I'm doing something at least vaguely useful to society, and living in a very lovely area of the country with a very lovely person.
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Re: 'midlife crisis' did you ? are you ? will you ?
Rockburner wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:31 am I believe I'm now in a much better place, certainly much happier: working for a charitable org where I feel I'm doing something at least vaguely useful to society, and living in a very lovely area of the country with a very lovely person.
Filly and I both had previous relationships. But all that stuff is part of the journey to where we are now.
The nack is to try not to keep too much emotional baggage, empty the mental loft, and cherish what you have and where you are now.
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ZRX61
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Re: 'midlife crisis' did you ? are you ? will you ?
I forget who it was, but some bloke bought a Dodge Viper & referred to it as his Mid-Life Chrysler
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cheb
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Re: 'midlife crisis' did you ? are you ? will you ?
I got mine out of the way early, I stopped being a debt collector, sold up and became a crab fisherman/sorter in the Hebrides. It seemed like a good idea at the time and I'm still here 35 years later.
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Jody
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Re: 'midlife crisis' did you ? are you ? will you ?
I've been considering a mid life crisis car for some time. I'm not far off 50 and by the time I am, I'll be in a position to afford something nice and not worry too much about what it costs to own etc. I keep looking at 911 variants. Then I remember how my vehicles spend 5 months getting baked in the hot French sun and 5 months getting snowed on and I decide that maybe I shouldn't have anything nice ??