wall of midlife crisis. when did you hit it and how did you make it thru. edited...

[Evoman]

96. I had mine at 32. Not kidding.

I had a Biochemistry major and a Masters in Biology. All I could get was low paying shitty lab jobs with absolutely no room for any advancement. One a tech, nowhere else to go. No phd or post docs, I couldn't direct my own work. The last job I was at I was horrible bullied by my boss.

Finished my term, had my crisis. Went to career counseling, dreamt of moving to another country and doing anything else. I HATED the isolation of working in a lab. I'm a people person...I should have never been in science.

Then I got hit by a car while walking across the street. While I healed up from that, I got unemployement and started desperately searching for somewhere to fit in. Decided going to pharmacy school.....science, but also people oriented, would be perfect for me. Then one week before school, diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. Kept up the school, but after surgery and then finding out I'm stage 4 changed everything.

I don't much care what happens now in my career. I can't work right now, so I'm working on becoming the best me I can be. I tell no lies, I'm true to myself, and I try to find things to do that our within my energetic ability (chemo gives me extreme fatigue). My goal right now is to become the most interesting person I can. I'm taking photography lessons and doing sketching...I want to look at the world in different ways. I also like to post on DU and some video game sights for fun. I like to keep my facebook friends in stitches, though they are the judge of whether I'm funny or not.

I'm just trying to be a good, interesting guy....because that's who I feel I am in the inside.