Fifth_Horseman: The band is called The Forsaken, I mixed their latest album "Beyond Redemption"
Thanks André!
I actually found that out via Google yesterday, started to listen on Youtube and ordered their album upon listening to the second song.
Really catchy stuff, right down my alley, and the production on that album just kills. Great job both of you on the mix and Jens on the master, love it!
Sucks to hear that you lost your motivation... to be honest, it sounds quite familiar to me, and probably does to many others as well.
Having worked hard to get somewhere for years, and when you're there you suddenly feel like it's meaningless, lose enthusiasm for it, start to feel trapped in it and feel the need to change something drastic to escape the situation, because you think it is actually not meant for you and you feel totally unbalanced.
According to a friend of mine who studies social economics, it is actually quite typical for people in their late twenties to go through such a phase. Usually after having finished studies, apprenticeship or the like and having settled down in a job and in the private situation. It's like suddenly they start asking themselves if that's really all there is to life, and all they can look forward to in the next 40 years or so.
Since you feel that bad at the moment it is obvious that you need to change
something...
My serious advice to you, if you either are not sure about what exactly to change, how to change it or just fail at changing it:
Get some kind of professional coaching: job coaching / life coaching or whatever seems appropriate. A professional coach can help you with reviewing your situation, finding out about your life motives and deciding what exactly needs to be changed to get back into balance.
I can tell you that in my situation the changes didn't need to be nearly as drastic as I thought, and my life decisions in the previous years weren't nearly as bad as I believed. And how surprised I was when I found that out...
The good thing is: If you get active, you might like the changes you did or at least investigated, or you might find out that the grass on the other side actually isn't greener at all. But even discovering the latter will still make you feel much better about staying where you are, because you don't need to yearn for the other side anymore.
So the question is what factors in your life actually throw your balance off and what you can do to remedy that.
Obviously you have some ideas already, and I think you're definitely on a good track in wanting to stabilize your financial situation, as well as in realizing the importance of social interaction. Those are very important base factors in anyone's life, it can hardly hurt to improve in these areas. And as you said there are more reasons.
I wish you good luck in improving your situation!
