I guess the best thing to do is see what you want to do, knowing that as soon as you have to deal with it 40 hours a week it loses its luster. Then start planning on how you get into it - and possibly having to start at the bottom again. The biggest hurdle to moving careers is having to start from the bottoms of the ladder again. Sometimes you may be able to make a move or two before you get there so you don?t. Example: be a project manager for IT then move to be one in the construction industry. However the problem with going into a totally different field is that you will likely lose salary. Just because you get X having worked up the ladder in IT doesn?t mean your skills and experience gained equate to the industry you are targeting, so why would they pay X or more?

Or if you are making good money, hang in there and find a new hobby to spend your time doing or go back to school for something else.

Having this same internal dialogue myself. I would like to do something else, but a big part of me doesn?t want to give up a decent chunk of pay to do it.