I will put this plain and simple go do it ! dont get hung up on career's , life for living you cant take your money with you when its all over , but you can take your memories with you

I have my own business , had dead end jobs half my life and started working for myself doing the same dead end jobs but for myself self ! the good money came rushing in , so took some time out drove from preston uk to mongolia
A 10 week trip turned in to almost 5 months! I found out more about my self
in those 5 months then 20 odd years !

So here we are earning good money back to the norm but its not the norm for me no more ! so planing my next big trip going to ride the world late 2011 hopefully, and i will simply end the business that ive always wanted and work so hard for , now i see there so much more to life live the dream you wont luck back ! ps my spelling aint the best no comments lol

Stephen

I was where you are now about 30 years ago, and decided to start a job, earn some money buy the bike of my dreams. I got the bike, but then got into a relationship, then out of it and into a new one. I raised two children, achieved a lot professionally and a fair bit personally and have managed to see a reasonable number of the parts of the world I want to see. I've achieved this by a combination of using holidays and periods of unemployment wisely, and working in multinational organisations. I am now in a position where my youngest is setting off on her gap year travels early next year. Within minutes of waving her a tearful (tears of envy) farewell I will also be setting out on a small (by HU standards, big enough for me) adventure. There are things I will see on this "adventure" that would have meant more when I was younger, and things I would have done then but won't do now. Partly this is because I am older and (maybe) a little wiser, partly because I have different tastes, but I am aware that I regret not having done some things, even if I don't want to do them now (when you're as old and knackered as I am you'll understand).

I love my family and would probably not change even if I could, but I often wonder where I might be now if I had seized the opportunity 30 years ago.

In short, my advice is to jump at the adventure. Reading between the lines of your original post, I suspect that is the advice you wanted to hear anyway.