I hope you’re not a failure too

Breaking out of yourself hurts, and here’s exactly why you should do it.

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I’ve had it up to here. I’m 49, and still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up. After many years in a bank, working myself up to a respectable position which didn’t bring me the ‘Yeah baby, I got there!’ sensation I was expecting, I resigned. After 27 years I left the only stable thing in my life because… well, because I simply…