What's the turning point of my life?

Perhaps it may helpful to simplify your thoughts. Be very clear about what you WANT to do as opposed to want you think you SHOULD do. Once your thoughts are clear, your direction is clear. In truth, there’s never a time you don’t know what to do. You just allow self imposed obligations to hinder your progress.

I’ve done everything I’ve ever wanted to do. Not everything worked out as expected. But I’ve never looked back and regretted not doing something I wanted to do.

You are young. Save some cash and take a year off and travel if that is what you want to do. As time passes it will get harder to do it. Make it your priority and just do it.

Shit, go to Japan and teach conversational english so you can make some cash while you travel.

The world is your oyster. Swallow it.

My answer is torn and could go both ways. My first reaction/answer is to say ditch the lawyer gig and follow your passion(s). 29 yrs old is truly a turning point in life towards settling down or chasing your passions but so it any age you will live. I have seen people do both and in most cases they are happy and others are miserable. The miserable ones are people who do not know how to appreciate what they have and are lacking the creativity to do more with what they have. Even when you have that ultimate commitment of having kids…IMO you can still maintain your job, your marriage and your sanity again by appreciating what you have and also what you strive to have.

I ran the rapids of a career I had no desire to pursue, marriage, kids and all along the way I always took time to do the things I love…play guitar and piano, hike the outdoors, swim, boat, fish, golf and a few years back I took up pottery and loved it. Life is all about living each and every day like there is no tomorrow with no regrets anywhere to be found.

I would talk to your employer and see if you can get some decent time off and just travel. I have a cousin who is like you. She is a nurse in the USA. No kids, No husband. Owns her own home, so right now, she is in Paris participating in a fancy dress masked ball at Versailles. A few months ago it was Ireland visiting friends. Before that she was in Egypt, China, here visiting me in Norway and I took her on a train trip up past the Arctic circle in search of the Northern Lights.

Adventure is out there, just waiting.

Heck, at 19, I packed up all the little things I didn’t think I could live without and moved from smalltown-midwest USA to New Zealand. Did not regret that. Still do not regret that.

@cazzie – how did you choose New Zeland ? Was it well though t out or just happened?

@imrainmaker I wanted to work for Qantas. I had an interview set up with them in a town where I knew some people. I didn’t get the job because I didn’t have a work permit sorted out in time, but I just fell in love with the place and ended up in a different profession. All the employer had to do was write a letter saying they wanted to employ me. The Manager at Qantas didn’t have the komurumurua.

It’s normal and can happen at any age. At 50 I realised I didn’t want to be a Financial Adviser and I chucked it in. I have had a rocky road after that, but hell I’d do it again.

First of all, thank you for all your comments. I really appreciated it.

The thing is that, I’ve been always grateful for what I have and never complaint about what I had or what could have been done. It seems like I feel more mature yet I don’t. I feel like I missed so many great opportunities to do in my earlier 20’s. cause didn’t want to do that at that time and it was natural. But now I want so badly to do some stuff. And yet again, here comes my responsibilities.

My life is on track and moving in the direction of my dreams. I got my promotion and I am the apple of my boss’s eyes. I don’t want to change it because I worked so hard to be at this position. For this very reason, unfortunately, I cannot take a year off and travel eventhough that is what I want to do @johnpowell @Cruiser @LornaLove And since we’re working like crazy it is impossible to get some time off and just travel @cazzie . I can only use my limited annual leave to do what I am dreaming of

Then your dreams are incompatible. I’m not sure why you asked this question since it seems like you already had your answer.

Actually this is true. My dreams are incompatible . This dilemma makes me annoying since I cannot do both but also want them all. I know that this is tricky. I need a job to makes my dream come true but on the other hand I’ve been dreaming something else. @johnpowell

Twenty-nine years may seem like a long time, but waiting for ten or even twenty years before you begin to follow your dreams is not a long as you might imagine. Since early childhood, I have had the dream of being involved in theater. However, the course of my life took me in other directions until I was in my forties. Then I became involved with a community theater company and ten years later became the assistant director of my city’s performing arts theater. There I was a key part of designing a new theater, raising the funds for its construction and establishing its operation. I retired at age sixty-seven and then became treasurer of a foundation that raises money for this theater’s operation and vice-president of a 501c(3) community arts association. Though it took fifty years since I was first bit by the theater bug at age six, I found that the journey prepared me for its fulfillment. My advice is for you to enjoy your current successes and patiently wait for the opportunity to realize your dreams that will come.

My cousin in now in Iceland, horseback riding. It’s really good of her to complete my bucket list for me. (laughing out loud, but not really because if I dwell too much on it, I will just sob) lol.

I think that is so awesome @Bill1939 and one of the best stories I have read here on Fluther. GOOD FOR YOU SIR!