I'm better off cause I thought I'd be aimless and nowhere still. My brain never really gelled with the financial self improvement thing, I just want a simple life with people I love, to cook great food, and to enjoy nature. Seeing as that's the primary motivator to get better careers and even suffer through shitty jobs I felt lost and stuck for a very very long time. Someone posted interview with the devil on NF a while back and for some reason it clicked. It doesn't matter how soul suckingly tedious and miserable most work is because it's equally tedious and miserable to do nothing at all. There were so many things I wanted and all you're told all your life is that you'll figure it out in time. That time passes though and you stay stuck where you were. Finally I decided that the thought of a life filled with more stressful tedium wouldn't stop me from achieving a less tedious life. I did a job I always thought I could never do. I did it until I met my bf and changed course to...