Years ago when I left a secure, well paid job that had become mundane everyone was quick to tell me I was a fool.   Two years later when my salary was substantially better and traveling the world many said it was OK for me but they had a mortgage and kids to look after.  To a degree they were right, I was lucky to have no kids and a wife that supported my decision, but the there are two sides to that and most of my colleagues in the new company also had kids and mortgages to look after. 

Travelling a great deal I discovered two things, firstly it is not as glamorous as it seems and, unless you make an effort to change, many of you problems go with you.  In other countries I found difficulties very much like home, after a while I had to accept it was not the country that was at fault it was me. 

Many years later I took the jump the other way.  I stopped the travelling and decided to work locally for about a third of the salary.  At each point it was the right call to make, but I was lucky enough that I was in the right place at the right time and had a wife gifted enough to show me what opportunities were opening up for me.  Yes I was lucky that such doors opened for me and I had someone to guide me through but it is also clear to me that many others have had opportunities open up for them and they made an excuse not grasp the opportunity.  Of course, when it was the right time they many found the doors had closed and no more had opened.

It is very easy to find any reason not to do something, much harder to find a valid reason to do something. 

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.