Ever heard of this term well I did not so when I started noticing symptoms of the mid life crisis in my life even though I am just 26 I started googling that if this was actually possible. Turns out this is the term that people have coined for situations like mine.

Experiencing dissatisfaction in your job, hate your boss and your boss’s boss(hope my boss doesnot read this). Think a part of the world is biased against you, think that you probably chose the wrong career, well  welcome to my world.

I am a 26 year old IT guy branded a Senior Developer in my firm have got bored of dealing with new APIs in my daily life and seeing my old boss standing next to me with all new bugs. The recession has not really helped because this time I cannot run from this; its not easy to switch jobs each year.

So, this time I decided to face it. Well the first thing I did was develop what my friends call a “firewall” the ability to disconnect from the world around you in the wink of an eye, so there you go here I am sitting in the middle of a boring board meeting finding solutions to the same old problems. The solutions to which are known to everybody but the BUSINESS  doesnot have enough resources to implement them so we end up patching where a whole new piece is required. Anyways I normally end up either on a hot air balloon trip over the valley of kings in egypt or on a Gondola in Venice. Meanwhile people around me keep thinking what I am smirking about when our director is describing how pathetic our team is performing. 

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The second thing, everytime my boss takes me to a secluded room using the same old phrase “Can I have a word with you” I leave my consciousness at the desk and my body follows him. Lets leave whatever happens in the room out of this article but it sails off smoothly with a periodic nodding of my head, an occasional shrug and a wry smile.

I have also joined the gym to feel good about myself, have started using up my leaves as soon as they get due , always am looking on the internet for new places to go and basically always plan to do things that I have never done even though I may never end up doing it.

Last but not least have chosen my dream car hopefully as the stress levels of my boss increases my savings will increase and I will be able to afford a shiny maybe old convertible I always wanted.

I do cherish my pay slips more now infact everytime I get one I rip it open and stare at it for two minutes just to make that piece of paper believe how much I love it perhaps even more than Jack loved Rose in Titanic; he had to die once I somehow manage to die every morning and revive myself by the end of the day.