by Christopher Mcphail

Created on: January 08, 2009

So what do you do when you suddenly find you've lost interest in your job? This is a question I have been asking myself a lot lately, and I just don't seem to have an answer. Many people would say, just change jobs, if only it were that simple. I used to truly enjoy my job, and I am very good at it, it just doesn't fulfill me. I started in my field of work seven years ago, and knew next to nothing about it, in less than five years time I moved up the ladder, and became a supervisor, it seems that was the last rung for me. You see, I don't have a degree, it just wasn't in the cards for me, and now it is too late to complete it. It's easy to sit there and say it's never too late, but I think that is just what we say to people to make them feel better, sometimes it really is too late. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /

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I had my chance at college right out of high school, but it just wasn't the right time for me. I had led a very sheltered childhood, with very controlling parents, and once I was on my own, away from their control, I went crazy. I partied, I blew off classes, I drank copious amounts of alcohol, and for the first time in my life I lived. We all know that that is a bad recipe for disaster, and after just one semester I was asked to kindly leave and not come back, not even academic probation could save me. It wasn't that I wasn't capable of the work; I just had better things to do at the time. They say hindsight is 20-20, but that doesn't do me much good now. With no college to occupy my time I worked and I had to move back in with my parents. I would have rather been homeless, but what can you do? Within a couple years time I realized I had to get out of my dead end town, and get as far away from my parents as possible if I was ever going to become my own person, so I joined the Navy. It seemed like the right thing to do, to at least give my life some purpose. It turned out to be the best thing I ever did with my life up to that point. I tested very high on the Navy's aptitude tests and was enrolled in their Nuclear Program. I went through two years of intensive training in the control and operation of Nuclear Reactors, and excelled. I met my wife and had two boys while serving. It was only after going on a deployment that I decided I couldn't make a career out of the Navy, I just didn't want to see my kids grow up in six month spurts. Had it not been for kids I would've retired from the Navy, but I now

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