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Has anyone with a perfectly respectable job/house given up everything to change direction? Am about to do this. Part of me questions my sanity, and the other part thinks life is for living, and I am not doing much living right now...
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Well, I accidentally fell into teaching without wanting to be a teacher. My degree was in film/TV/Art. All my life I have been 100% into creative pursuits, and (I am not blowing my own trumpet) looking back, all my old teachers expected far greater things from me than being a teacher- as did I!! After my degree it was very hard to get a job where I was, since I was doing my band full-time, and needed a day job which was just that. I couldn't find one so I did a PGCE as something to fall back on.
So, after uni, I never did the "get a great job in the media" thing like my friends did- I became a musician.
Several years later, the band broke up and I was left, very ill, on incapacity benefit. Gradually I went back to work, but this was teaching, as it was the only thing I was qualified to do!
So years later (14 years since I graduated) I have done a lot of teching, but not followed my heart at all. So now is the time to give it up, go back to uni and do an MA in film making, in order to focus again on whatn I perhaps should have done al those years ago!!x
Scarlett - Go for it! Like you say, life is for living. And yes, it will be only natural to quake in your boots a bit and question your sanity!
But life isn't a dress rehearsal - follow your dream - you know you can do it and you don't want to look back in years to come and think 'What if ....?'
Good luck!!