Midlife crisis even more pronounced with a wife and kids. I still remember the day I nearly had a nervous breakdown. In a dead-end job, wife was 8 months pregnant, I feared that my son would get to the age where he would realize how much my job sucked.
Doing stand-up comedy, and as miserable as it sounds, playing videogames to get my mind off of it, probably saved my sanity.
Didn't want to stress the pregnant wife out about how close I was to snapping, so I just kept holding it in. Still do that to this day in fact. I'm pretty 1950's patriarchal, so I look at it as the man's responsibility to be the bread winner and not worry others with his problems, but daaaamn, that period in my life was rough. Thankfully I'm in a better (yet still dead-end career) and missed out on my dream job this past summer through no fault of my own.
It sounds pathetic, but I'm feeling relegated to just being a regular 9-5 worker bee, not rocking the boat because I've got family responsibilities, and hope for better for my kids. At least while many analysts are saying we're in the generation where we won't do better than our parents, I've set the bar so low, that as long as my kids aren't wearing nametags in their 30's, they'll do better! hehe
I really want to do with my life lately.
