If you lost your job what would you do? Backup, Dream job or Flakeout.

[NightWatcher]

If I cant make my business work, I'm going to either drive a cab or walk the Earth a la Kung Fu The Series with David Caradine.

I'm THIS close to completely flaking out.

[datasuspect]

1. i'll walk the earth with you

kinda feeling that way myself

[NightWatcher]

2. I thought that I was the only one, but I've a friend who flaked out and went to Seattle and then

Vancouver BC from South Georgia. We all used to take little reality breaks for a few months or two, but we were younger. This guy is 31, like myself and decided to drop out for a while.

[datasuspect]

3. it helps to lower expectations

helps a lot.

[NightWatcher]

4. I cant get lower. I'm marginal now as is.

[datasuspect]

5. i revert back to nature and things larger than buying and selling all the things we buy and sell

it's like being a secular monk or something.

[NightWatcher]

6. I'd love to go be a monk in a trappist brewery in Belgium

[grace0418]

7. Well I've thought about it a lot seeing as it's a very real possibility.

I've pretty much decided to go freelance (I'm a graphic designer), although I don't completely relish the thought. Of course I'd love to find a dream job, but I have to figure out what that would be. So far I have no idea. But I *do* have a mortgage and a husband who wants us to start a family. So it looks like I'll be doing shit work until I figure it out.

Good luck to you! I know the feeling. I have a failed business under my belt as well.

[NightWatcher]

9. not a failed business, just a new business and it's ok for now

Of course it could be bigger, but I'm good for right now. I;m just sick and tired of "society" as it currently stands. I'm feeling that traveling jones again.

[grace0418]

10. Sorry, when I wrote "as well" I meant "as well as a job I hate and a mortgage and

a husband who wants us to start a family..." but I realize that was not the way it sounded.

I always have the traveling jones. That's my one constant in life is that I want to see the world. If I were any good at writing I would love to be a travel writer. Or maybe I wish I were just independently wealthy so I could travel at will. My stupid-ass two weeks of vacation every year is not nearly enough. I always end up taking several unpaid days (which certainly may enhance my candidacy for the next round of layoffs).

[Connonym]

8. I flake out just thinking about it

I'm smart enough I suppose but I don't have any skills that would earn more than a pitiable wage. It's depressing. If I could do anything I wanted I'd go back to college full time and become an audiologist or optometrist. In all honesty, I think the American dream is dead. The only hope I can hang onto is that things will be better for my kids.