What were your expectations when you left school? Get a job, get rich,buy a big car, live in a big house, marry an attractive spouse, have many children and live happily ever after. Maybe you had a dream to be something specific such as an actor, sportsman or maybe professional such as a lawyer. Statistics say that the people who wanted to be something specific from an early age are the ones who end up happiest. Those of us without specific objectives who just planned to have a good life end up dis-satisfied no matter how successful we become because we usually end up doing something we don't really want to do.

How can we solve this malaise, I suppose we really need to decide what we want to do with the rest of our lives. It doesn't matter when you do it the important thing is to have something achievable to aim at. Plan to do something that you want to do for your benefit. It apparently has a really cathartic effect on the rest of your existence. The only reason most of us don't end up doing something we enjoy is because we listen to the negative views of others. I wonder how many emigrants left their poverty or war ravaged homes without someone, possibly a parent saying "Are you sure you are doing the right thing? Its not too bad round here compared to where you are going."

So my advice to those of you sitting in boring jobs living humdrum existences is think about what you really want to do and go and do it. Your life will never be the same again.