Pretty funny Brian!

Thirty-two years in business is an accomplishment, Rebecca. Don't think it isn't. Any level of financial security one has managed to maintain is, really. I hope you do decide to do something creative, if only for the sake of doing so. Whether it achieves anyone else's standards for "greatness" really couldn't be more beside the point. Make it the best you can make it and then move on to the next project. Do that one well and move on to the next. Greatness will take care of itself. You do the same for yourself.

William, thanks for the kudos. That friend literally didn't speak to me again for years afterwards. Over Kingdom Come, of all things.

Years later, he apologized and gave me a deluxe Barbie Wonder Woman as a gift over dinner. He said that it was my comprehensive knowledge of comics history and trivia that he found overwhelming and unable to keep pace with. He'd felt intimidated. I thanked him, and told him again as I did then that I could see what he was enjoying with the series, but couldn't enjoy it myself. I apologized if I'd been brusque or overbearing. Dinner went okay, although we really didn't stay in touch afterwards, and when I later returned to the place we'd both worked, he was a major player in getting me fired as quickly as possible, delivering the news himself with a sort of animated, energetic enthusiasm.

The moral, apparently? Do NOT get on people's wrong side concerning which version of Batman they enjoy. People take their Batman seriously. :-)

* Okay, not true. I do have a storage unit and two rooms filled with stuff I need to get rid of and soon.

And yet (not telling you how to think), you've had countless experiences, no doubt. Opportunities for development. You've no doubt experienced different environments, different colleagues, etc. And having had quite a few day jobs, and remembering that every workplace is unique, you have knowledge, experience and skills that might, just might, be more worthy than people who stay in jobs for 30 or 40 years.

Take nothing away from those people, of course. But I worked with a woman who had been in her role for 27+ years. She said something like, "I only wanted to come here as a stopgap and move on, but here I am 27 years later." She had regrets. It was sad.

Sorry if I sound like a life coach or employment guru, my friend (not my intention). But isn't there some value and enjoyment in having had more than one job? More power to those who do the same job for 20, 30 or 40 years. Good luck to them! 

But we can all become stale. That's why I left my last profession. A change of environment is good. Fresh faces are good. And we do seem, certainly in the UK, to be living in an era where people do not only change jobs but change careers.