Reddit reviews Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow: Discovering Your Right Livelihood

That would definitely help explain your problem.

Unless you have a huge trust fund which is under good management and your lifestyle doesn't eat into it, you, like most everyone else, will need to earn a living.

What you do for work for the next 40+ years is up to you, if you have goals and work towards them. You could be a bum on the streets and panhandle/collect cans. You could choose some stressful, high-power career (doctor/lawyer) that funds a lavish lifestyle. Or you can pick something altruistic that doesn't pay so well, but is fulfilling to you: like the sciences or arts.

Going to college/university means you can pick from more interesting work and generally get paid more for doing it.

Going into business for yourself offers independence, and if it works out, can pay off better than many careers; but can take harder work, longer hours, and offers less perks until it really comes together. The high-flying internet startup stories are exciting, but are rare, not the norm. Even if you go this route, a grounding both in business classes and rounding out your education (history, science, writing, etc) will help in future.

Pick up something like Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow

Paul Graham wrote an essay on this too:
http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html

Spend a little of that money seeing a career counselor. It's possible that one of your former institutions will offer you that service for free, most likely through their job counseling/employment services offices or alumni offices (they may be able to connect you with an alum who could use an employee like you). Government employment agencies may also offer surprisingly good analysis of your skills and match them with the employment trends.

See:
https://www.bls.gov/emp/

What you need to do is look at your skill sets and interests in a systematic way and figure out (preferably with the perspective of someone who helps others find their bliss) what kind of work would make you feel like you would do it even if no pay were involved.

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EDIT: maybe this is better posted on /r/askacademia

There is no point studying for the sake of studying unless you are independently wealthy. If you are looking for something that will capture your bliss, figure out how to use the skills that you have. Then get a job (or make your own) that will allow you to spend your time the way you'd like.

Way to go, buddy. At the end of the day, only you know what is right for you. Congrats on staying true to yourself. There was a book published some years back, Do what you love, the money will follow. You may want to check it out.

Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow: Discovering Your Right Livelihood . The converse reasoning seems to be that if the money is not 'following' you, then you are not doing what you love.

As a female engineer (recently graduating, not fully an engineer yet), you have to love the field you are in or you'll never be happy.

You'll be told by upper years, if you don't love your field, get out. Its far to expensive to waste your time doing something you hate.

I know many people who are very happy and successful with an arts degree (they also have good business sense).

Best book I read when I was in high school was "Do what you love, and the money will follow".

If you can't balance work, school, and a social life with a reduced course load than you'll be in real trouble at university.

If I may make a suggestion, try changing the orientation of "I’m already tired of this whole life thing" to "I'm tired of ..."; you fill in the blank a bit more specifically.

From my exalted (AKA "old") perspective, if you are not clinically depressed, which I had to deal with in my mid-20's, then it is not "life" that's the problem, it's what you are doing with it.

I found that contentment was more correlated with satisfaction with what I was doing at the moment than how much money I had. I was fortunate to write some software that generated a nice amount of income. I was unfortunate in that I blew about 85-90% of that money on some other software that people did not need yet. (Classic Nolan Bushnell quote: It is better to be a little late to market than early.") I was about 10 years early on search engines, i.e. disk was > $10,000/GB (1986).

But then I met this woman. And she was simultaneously unlike any woman I had ever dated, and also disturbingly like my mother (but not in any kid of broken-arms sense). And she gave me a perspective that ... I had never had.

That was almost 30 years ago. We both wanted kids but physiology was against us. But then family dynamics meant we became "parents" of 5 kids as each turned 18 and could legally leave their situation. We now have 4 "grandkids" and a deliriously complicated but thoroughly enjoyable family situation.

tl;dr: I have less than a tenth of the money I had at one time, but my life is about 1,000 times richer than it was when I had that money.

Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow (or at least enough of it for you enjoy what really matters).

So "retire" from what is not satisfying and move on to that which is. Is it easy? No. Is it worth it? Yes.

I don't see it as sad - I see it as someone following their passion. And she seems to have some passion...
http://www.amazon.com/What-Love-Money-Will-Follow/dp/0440501601

Do What you Love and the Money will Follow