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It may be hard to find someone who understands your situation very well, but I would recommend trying to find the small nuggets of insight or underlying thought you can find from those you speak to about it. Anecdotally, I consider myself lucky to have been convinced to see a psychiatrist (after considering it frequently over the previous decade). After a few months on medication, a few talks with some friends and colleagues about what was going on (and discovering that some of them have had similar experiences), I started to get a degree of perspective I hadn't felt before about my relationship to work. Not terribly much longer I started doing side projects for fun, after years of declining interest in pretty much everything I used to enjoy. Finding a job you enjoy can be hard and take some time, even if not considering a career change. I would caution against wholesale avoiding using your existing skills - they may be useful as a way into a new job that will afford you an opportunity to try get closer to something you are interested in trying out. Also, trying a totally different type of organisation, if available, is also something to try, even if using the same set of skills, since often people enjoy doing things more with the right people, or with the right mission or feeling of doing good in the world. (So, maybe a charity/non-profit, or a family concern instead of a "company".) Try not to be too afraid of taking incrementally-closer-to-what-you-want jobs as you find them (ie, always be looking and talking to companies), even if it means only spending a few months at one or two companies on the way (assuming your previous career shows a stability future employers might want to find). (I'm happy to speak to you offline if you like - my contact details are in my profile.) |