Quarterlife crisis

Met Fang, Serene and Jen for dinner yesterday. Haven't met Fang for ages? She still looks the same. Dinner was just a simple affair, we had Taiwanese noodles/snacks. The food were so-so. The service wasn't fantastic. But the company was great.
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Fang has just started her own business. When asked why the sudden decision to start a business, she just laughed. "Erm, mid-life crisis lor. (I think she meant quarterlife crisis) I felt tired working day in day out and I decided I shouldn't be wasting my life working. I wanna do something I like. I wanna do something that I am good at. I wanna do something for myself. So I quit my job and started my own company."

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Fang is not just selling products like clothes, accessories, etc. She is selling her skills - Image Consultancy. WoW! She took up alot of relevant courses and also an entrepreneurship course. She even gave free workshops/talks so as to advertise her business and gain more experience. I guess she has made the right moves in setting up her business. I admire her perseverance and and her courage. I had thought about going into this line when I attended a workshop by Jill Lowe in 2000. I just thought it was interesting to dress up to teach. Yesh, I was naive then. Somehow, the idea just died over time cos I didn't bother to do anything about it. It is sooooo me. =)

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Back then I also thought about what I wanna do with my life. I thought about what I was good at and interested in. I thought about starting a business.

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I love doing jigsaw puzzles but I am not really good at it. But, if I were to sell jigsaw puzzles just because I like jigsaw puzzles is kinda ... silly. I like the process of piecing them together, I don't think I like to see them in boxes.

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I love shopping so someone suggested that I could be a fashion purchaser. But then I thought my so-called fashion styles are not commercialised enough and they are very limited. To be a fashion purchaser, must take course somemore. And I am more of a fashion-catcher (try very hard to 'catch' the latest fashion from magazines etc) rather than a fashion-setter. I just wasn't good enough.

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Then I thought of taking up a computing diploma at a local Uni so that I can be a specialist, an IT analyst. But then, I would have to quit my job to take that course because they don't offer part time courses. I gave up because I didn't have the money to study and I didn't wanna ask Albert. And I think I wasn't that interested in that course, anyway.

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My life maybe very different now if I chose to move on. It could be for the better or for the worse. Nobody knows.

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I chose to stay. I can't decide if I regret staying put in my present job. I just hope that ...