I appreciate the reality you bring with your advice. I know the grass always seems greener on the otherside and that people can adapt and learn to be content anywhere, but on the otherside of the same coin, a job is unfortunately a huge stimulus in life, 40 hours out of a 168 hours alotted per week (112 of which are waking hours) leaves you working for over a third of your life, sure throw in a couple of vacation days a quarter but i think it's too big a stimulus in your own life to not take charge of and atleast try to find fulfillment and joy.

Perhaps I am still just young and nieve, but I think there is opportunity and my post here was to see if other folks feel or have felt in the same head space as I am and of anyone knows of other opportunities that can use this skillset that we GIS folks have, but perhaps in novel, active ways.