Hey Abaco. I like to say I'm tired of being tired. I love what I do but when I see my taxes paying moochers and looters I wonder if it's worth it. Push thru it and be proud of what your accomplishing.

Traveling every week to Milwaukee to fix a struggling division grown beyond its ability to execute. Got home at 3am last week, midnight this week. Up at 3am on Monday to go back... General Manager pushing back on tough decisions. Very stressful.

Much better than overseeing a layoff/closure though!

Being retired is great. Making more now than ever but on my own time with my own choices. Very happy.

Are you enjoying what you are doing? If you are tired from doing stuff you like (and you just happen to like to many different things) then you are not bad off. Play on.

Are you in a period of transition? (Remember G'kar's "Periods of transition intersperse with periods of revelation."?) Are you transitioning from engineering to finance or vice versa? Then grit your teeth and see it through.

But if you are not having fun and you are not pursuing a goal that will let you have fun with life - for goodness sake CHANGE SOMETHING!

Jan

Been there, done that, now 'retired' - got tired of supporting bums!

So...what else is new?
When I was in retailing, long hours and working often 7 days a week were the thing. When I got into publishing and had the weekends off, life seemed like a continuous vacation. I'll bet you have goals and you're working to achieve them. I'll also bet that it's not just for the money. I admire you. Keep it up. Remember a motto that I've used ever since I learned it: Ad Asra Per Aspera. "Through hardship, to the stars."

I am tired of giving what I have to work for to the government.
I am also tired of being hounded by bums almost everywhere expecting me to feel sorry and work for them.
I am also very tired of the entitled mentality that is pervasive today. I see it everywhere. It is very depressing actually. I want to live where these things do not surround me

Howard Roark went on vacation. How about you?

One of my goals? A house where I can open the bedroom windows and hear the surf.

Yea, I am there and doing that too; tired isn't the word for what I feel, but I do get some satisfaction from being industrious and surviving; something I am not sure I'll be able to keep on doing with all the predictions of doom and gloom, we Are about to experience some dramatic cycles from nature; fraud, coercion and threats of initiatory force from the worlds kakistocracies.
I work all the hours I can get and write every chance I get,( working on my second book) even though it seems to feed the beast and those that do not work, more than my wife and I.
Just when it should have become easier at this stage, I find that I am working harder than ever only to get half as far. Hoping my next book will go main stream and allow me to experience the success of what seems to be my essence.

When I get into the whack-a-mole treadmill of putting out fires, it's hard to get out. I have to find something to energize me not to work more but to find systems I can buy or people I can hire to help. Once I get past a certain level of fatigue, I can't think clearly about the big picture, about how I could help my clients without me personally doing something. I've cycled in and out of this for the past few years, and I'm still learning.

IMHO you need to find some way to change at least one of your two jobs into businesses that can be sold or managed without your personal attention. That is hard, and I am still figuring out how to do it. Along the way you can be thankful you're not one of those people counting on one job and wringing your hands that their employer might be acquired or the gov't might make some program change that shakes up their lives.

Just quit the finance job, working for thieves is pointless anyway and they'll downsize you any day now.

Hey Abaco. Fellow engineer here! I wonder, two careers for the same reason as me? I have engineering project management as a day job (still serious career) and sideline business portfolio to create my own Gulch lifestyle. Plus a full family. So I'm tired too, but energized and driven to turn my dreams and goals into reality.
Is your work consistent with your values and moving you closer to your goals and dreams? Or are you thinking that there must be a better way?

Taking care of an aging (but lucid) parent. Husband just got through chemo.
7 days-per-week working at either my fabrication business or restoring our Victorian home.
Up early and to bed early is the only way I keep from collapsing.

Wish I would have had children.