Packing up and leaving?

i have the exact same thoughts

i think about leaving and seeing the world and generally working my way around the world. but i then think of my family and the financial support i provide them and it makes me think that i cant leave them. but one day!
 
I sometimes feel like just sprouting jets from my legs and flying around the world, living rough only a week at a time in various countries before using my jet-legs to ship me elsewhere.

I'd also use my invisibility cloak to steal (I know, I feel bad about it) new clothes etc. when necessary, but that's a basic necessity.

It isn't going to happen, though. Sad as it may be.
 
How many Emos does it take to change a lightbulb? None, they just sit in the dark and cry about it.

In other words, to change your life you have to do something. Change doesn't come from nothing.
 
been there done it

at 15 i was working on supply boats and sub mother ships around africa and the middle east came back to uk at 17 went to college got bored left for work with a US oil company .. did it for 12 years or so before eventually coming back to uk and then living in other places also


do it while you have the urge and not as many commitments as u may have in later life that will restrict you.

dont drive tho just go your car wiull be a burden

take your passport your wallet a change of clothes is not always needed as you can buy and discard as you go..

always let people know where u r.


but hell yes do it try diferent jobs learn languages as u go and work as you find it

explore, join the Legion etrangere, do some thing dont sit there in 30 years time thinking what if, if only i tried this or that..
 
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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 :p
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Yes, then (sensibly) planned it. Have left work and I'm off in a few months :D
 
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 :p
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I feel exactly the same way,Just sell everything i own...quit my job
(not show up..every again :p ) and find a place that is just....quiet,And not tied to one place/lifestyle all the time.

Bizarre i know,It has been done though by a few people i remember seeing it on the news about this bloke who just gave up everything..his job,His car,donated the money in his bank account to charity then just went traveling and became totally Self sufficient living off the land somewhere he did not need money.
 
GO DO IT simples........ dont just go to france for a couple months or a student type sebatical .. GO DO IT for real

go live in the andes or in the Mulanje Mountains go to Ulaanbaatar, Tajikistan, go drive the bolivian roads of death in a toyota landcruiser. trek across alaska but why waste your life in the Uk at least do something untill u have to come back

what ever it is why work 9-5 in this country untill u have to ..
 
hehe.. right, I am having a shower, then driving back to my prison (rented flat). Then start to read up on NZ, Magnolia we will have a pint in Auckland... even if I can't get a work visa and come over on a working holiday one :D

I'm gonna bloody do it... I guess it takes months and months to get a visa anyway, in that time I could have had a couple of years experience in this job. I have already served 7 months...

May as well see about Canada to, I need to double check Australia but I don't think they need my experience but my degree could get me in to mining but I have no direct experience so I suspect it would be unlikely.

I am going to look at jobs in europe as a last resort, see if I can get on the rigs, which is why I need more experience in this role I have now, look at Netherlands and Germany if my visas fall through in NZ/Canada.

I listen to my Dad to much who is so pessimistic its unreal. Everything except a mortgage and dying in my home town is unrealistic :/

I cannot imagine living and dying here, if that is my fate then I want the Lord to take me now, everyone is right, this will be my fate unless I bloody do something about it myself!!!!!2!£@!!!
 
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I would love to but the Missus and child might object :p

If I could do it all again I would have went travelling at 21 like I intended and probably would still be away, make an adventure of life! If you have the opportunity do it!!!
 
Well I have been moping around since university nearly a decade ago, been in jobs and got some experience but all my friends have moved on, married with kids and mortgages or moved for jobs.

I have been too addicted to games to do much about it, I now see I should have gone. Some of my uni mates and school friends are now in Oz/NZ. Two of them are doctors in biology and geology. One married an Australian so has a spouse visa and he is over there now.

Where as I have done nothing, except work, almost literally. No friends left to do anything at the weekend, I just sit either in my flat or drive back to my parents and play online games. I turned 29 this year and am worried I will still be doing this rubbish at 39 if I don't do something this year.
 
Skillmister said:
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.
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Don't forget the sulphur to ward off any evil spirits!
 
I've got the wheels in motion to move away in August or September. Where I'm going to go, I don't really know (nor particularly care). I'm just really looking forward to a change of scenery.

Is it going to be a long term thing? Probably.

I broke up with my girlfriend last night as well, so I guess that's making me even keener to get away and do something different.
 
I love how all these people think moving to aus/nz/us will instantly make you popular/more desirable to hire.

Some people have a predisposition to this sort of thing, of you have to ask to (or litteraly be told to do it) off a computer forum I'd say you'll struggle regardless of where you go in to world.

Unless you do something like the legionnaires which will force you to change.

Sorry to be honest here but nowt like running out of money half way round the world with no one to help you? (happened to a friends of mines younger brother and I've bailed him out)

KaHn
 
I read the title and instantly thought, do you actually mean packing up and leaving or just simply running away!

Oxy said:
I have rewritten this post as what I want to type is very dark and people will think I am depressed/mental :p
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^^That part is worrying

Oxy said:
I just feel stuck in a rut.
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^^This is probably more along the lines of the truth.

Oxy said:
Well I have been moping around since university nearly a decade ago, been in jobs and got some experience but all my friends have moved on, married with kids and mortgages or moved for jobs.
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^^This probably doesn't help as you seem to be jealous of your friends / annoyed that you didn't do it yourself 10yrs ago.

The whole part of being 'addicted to computer games' isn't really an excuse for watching the world go by. If you wanted to change something in your life / take a chance you would have already. Reflecting on things now, its easy to say I should have done this or that, but would it make a difference to how you are now? By that i mean, if you had moved to another city / country would you be living in a rented flat playing computer games or would you be happily married, kids mortgage etc? Who knows, but you've made so many choices thus far in life, you need to ask yourself are you doing what you're doing for the right reasons?

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Maybe just a holiday will help you escape from the day to day current events that you're not happy with. Come back with a slightly fresher outlook?
 
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