Packing up and leaving?

craptakular · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:02

Do you get the feeling of just grabbing your passport and driving, anywhere... I have a real urge to just grab a change of clothes and just go tomorrow... not show up for work, abandon my rental flat and possessions and never return.

Is this normal? I think about this a lot.

I have rewritten this post as what I want to type is very dark and people will think I am depressed/mental

Morgoth · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:06

Today seems to be the day for expressing depressed feelings, open up to us Oxy, share your burdens.

Castiel · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:07

Do it.

Abraxaz1 · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:08

This is very normal to me, just want to pack the bike or landy up and head for foreign shores.

The Halk · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:09

The opposite really, I couldn't ever leave my home forever. I do like going away, but I like coming back too.

On Holiday · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:09

Abraxaz1 said:
This is very normal to me, just want to pack the bike or landy up and head for foreign shores.

Put the bike in the landy and your set for life.

Skillmister · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:10

Grow a pair and do it.

I'm currently planning my escape to the highlands of scotland. I have written a list of my survival belongings and have been in close contact with kwerk and areksomething to aquire a large amount of knowledge with regards to personal safety and hunting weapons.

craptakular · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:10

I don't know of it stems from anything really... all my friends have moved on, the phone never rings, I have a "fixed term" job, which is going to give me some good experience in a good field but I what's the point in it if you got no friends or a girlfriend to see things?

I am awaiting for Magnolia to turn up and say I have been pestering him about NZ info for years and yet still haven't done anything

Stuff it tomorrow, I read up on visa options properly, write anything I don't understand down then phone NZ house in London on Monday.

I think I can get in as I have a degree they want and have work experience, I just feel stuck in a rut.

T345 · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:12

Oxy said:
I don't know of it stems from anything really... all my friends have moved on, the phone never rings, I have a "fixed term" job, which is going to give me some good experience in a good field but I what's the point in it if you got no friends or a girlfriend to see things?

Go in a boat with lots of food to the netherlands (i believe) then get shot and find a bank code, go to the embassy, find LOADs of your passports all different countries
then forget your name etc

2bit · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:18

I left my job many years ago... Just walked out.
Worked well for me - just have the courage of your convictions.

rexehuk · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:19

Oxy, does this mean we're finally running away together?

Are we bringing our cat?

I will follow you to the end my sweetheart.

Westyfield2 · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:25

Yep :/

2bit · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:30

Oxy said:
Do you get the feeling of just grabbing your passport and driving, anywhere... I have a real urge to just grab a change of clothes and just go tomorrow... not show up for work, abandon my rental flat and possessions and never return.

Is this normal? I think about this a lot.

I have rewritten this post as what I want to type is very dark and people will think I am depressed/mental

OXy - just do it. Go as far as you can from here. Seriously.

T345 · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:32

I have rewritten this post as what I want to type is very dark and people will think I am depressed/mental

GO TO A MENTAL HOSPITAL!

oldbag · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:36

2bit said:
I left my job many years ago... Just walked out.
Worked well for me - just have the courage of your convictions.

I did the same 3 months ago, and since then i have done some training and have been feeling great.

2bit · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:41

oldbag said:
I did the same 3 months ago, and since then i have done some training and have been feeling great.

Good luck oldbag,

Good for you - Here's hoping for more luck to come.

Bless you.

Fuzz · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:48

If I ever won the lottery this is EXACTLY what I'd be doing.
Wouldn't tell my boss, parents, mates... NO one.
Once I'd had a bit of time to settle into the idea mind, I would see everyone "right" as they say... but also out of the blue, like pay their mortgage off without telling them and stuff like that.
Really sneaky things but in a nice way

The closest I get to doing this at the moment is when we get a bank holiday I didn't realise was coming up, for eg last week before the Jubilee. Thursday evening I wrote an email to a travel company "I want to go to Iceland for three days, I want to do this this and this, make it happen..
They did and I flew out on the Saturday, came back this Tuesday.

On my Jack Jones... &%$King awesome

paradisiac · 10 Jun 2012 at 00:50

if i had the money i would just leave. oh and the kids, if i had the money and didnt have kids i would just leave.

Amp34 · 10 Jun 2012 at 01:03

All the time...

I just keep telling myself I like my job (I do) and that I need at least a couple of years experience before I run off again for a few months.

What is worse is I have the money to have a very nice time, just need to keep going to secure a bit of a future!

[FnG]magnolia · 10 Jun 2012 at 01:08

Oxy said:
I don't know of it stems from anything really... all my friends have moved on, the phone never rings, I have a "fixed term" job, which is going to give me some good experience in a good field but I what's the point in it if you got no friends or a girlfriend to see things?

I am awaiting for Magnolia to turn up and say I have been pestering him about NZ info for years and yet still haven't done anything

Stuff it tomorrow, I read up on visa options properly, write anything I don't understand down then phone NZ house in London on Monday.

I think I can get in as I have a degree they want and have work experience, I just feel stuck in a rut.

We've been through this three or four times now and the advice and direction hasn't changed. What needs to change is your inability or unwillingness to make things happen.

If you don't want to do it then just make peace with yourself that it isn't going to work out. There's no harm in that.

If you do want to do it then JFDI.

For what it's worth I think you should take the second option but ruminating and umming and ahhing gets you nowhere. Make a call and get on with it, whatever 'it' happens to be.