I'm tired of my work. My career. Just plain burned out. I've been here for 8 years and now make about $80k a year with GREAT benefits, so it's sort of the Golden Handcuffs. Even though I love this company and I know the work we do is important and meaningful, I find no enjoyment in MY work. I don't enjoy the vast majority of what I'm responsible for, and I don't feel I'm doing a great job as a result. I know what I do enjoy, and GREAT at, and would like to do, and I have a vague notion of what that title is, but it's essentially in a totally different field, although an area I do have quite a bit of practical experience in. I have 20 years experience as a sort of jack of all trades.
I brought this up to a friend who suggested a career coach. I signed up with the coaching agency she suggested, which is from I can tell is the most reputable agency in the city, for a free 30-minute consultation. From what I can gather contracting their services ain't cheap, though. How not cheap, I don't know yet. They talk about "to find yourself in a fulfilling career, the cost is well worth the investment" on their website, though. Investment to me means $,$$$. I digress.
However I just feel completely stuck. Unmotivated. Often depressed. Not fulfilled. Tired. I need a career change. The thought of doing this same sort of work for another 10 years, let alone 25, just makes me... sad. I HAVE to do something. I think I'd be happier doing manual labor than what I do now.
For what it's worth, I also don't particularly enjoy living in Austin these days, between the horrendous traffic and insane cost of living, so I'm open to moving to wherever a new career might take us. My wife, however, doesn't want to move. At all. Not from the city, not from our house. She's burned with her job too, but I think she's scared of the vast unknowns that come with relocation. This is a separate situation, however...