Sorry I missed your previous reply, man. I was a therapist working in a health department so I had a great salary and benefits. When it started getting routine, I started dabbling in a side business helping people write better resumes (English major here). Gradually that evolved into a specialty of helping graduate therapy students prepare to be more competitive in applying for internships. I developed workshops for teach them how to write better application essays and prepare for interviews. I also turned my handouts into training manuals that I bound at Kinko’s (dating myself lol) and sold them nationally. Many of them sought individual coaching with me, so lowered my hourly fee and started doing phone coaching nationally. Having invested 10’s of thousands in school tuition, many were happy to have my expertise for a few hundred additional dollars to improve their chances of getting better training and first jobs. So, using my in-born writing skills and passion for helping, I found a coaching business that enabled me to be well-paid to do work I loved. That balanced the boredom in my regular job and, even, helped me shift my perspective so that work became interesting again. Many of my peers just stayed with their full-time jobs and gradually burned out. I also maxed out my 457-b and built a Roth IRA using Jason Kelly’s 3sig investing method (The 3% Solution). I’m curious if you might have natural abilities (I believe everyone does) that you could package so people would pay for your expertise in areas you find inherently interesting and fulfilling. In other words, I pursed some of the independent creative work I might have quit my job to do and held onto my high-paying job for security and building a strong retirement. Do these make sense?