Thank you for this article. I turned 25 in May and am deciding whether to leave my employment with salary and benefits to work at a coffee shop and start doing music more seriously. I thought that I was crazy and I just toyed around with this idea a little... but your article has pushed me more towards the Lord to ask Him and to allow quitting to be a viable option instead of a looney bin fantasy. anywho, thanks.
dust, congrats on getting your article on relevant. thats very cool. can i say, "i'm proud of you" without sounding condescending or gay?? i don't know...but i am dude. as far as what you had to say, thanks for your honesty and vulnerablilty. i can truthfully say...despite the 'asked to resign' part (which would probably be warranted if it did occur)...i am experiencing everything you wrote about. it seems so pathetic, or maybe overdramatic, to feel like this at 25, but...i don't know. anyhoo, thanks for sharing your heart, man.
thanks for the article. i was grateful that you were able to connect with so many people (including myself). i guess henri was right when he said "that which is most personal is most universal."
Dustin, Nice article. It got me right in the chest. (and made my nipples tingle) No really you articulated well a phenomenon that is really happening in our culture. It happened to me at around 25 and I am just now starting to come out of it. I turned 30 last Sept. I think that I just expected too much from life. I guess I thought there would be more meaning and fulfillment as I got older and wiser. The opposite has proven to be true. That sounds a little depressing but really its just freeing.
Dustin, I don't know you, but I googled your name after reading the article on relevant. I have been waiting a long time to read that someone else is there too. I just quit a full time ministry job in June, that I had been at for 5 years. I just got too good at it, while losing the passion that brought me there. I felt really famous, and like I had a lot of responsibilities, but I didn't feel like I was in my 20's any more. I'm trying to figure out all of that right now, learning who I am and even thinking about who I want to be, and it's dang hard. One thing you are going to miss is the affirmation that comes with the job. Starting from scratch is so weird, but it is an adventure. I don't think you will regret this time of your life. My word of advise is to take it one day at a time, and just ask God to be glorified in whatever happens that day. Cause chances are you aren't going to be, He might as well. For me I had to move to hawaii, to make some room for adventure. Thanks for getting those thoughts out there. Here's to the freedom...
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Thank you for this article. I turned 25 in May and am deciding whether to leave my employment with salary and benefits to work at a coffee shop and start doing music more seriously. I thought that I was crazy and I just toyed around with this idea a little... but your article has pushed me more towards the Lord to ask Him and to allow quitting to be a viable option instead of a looney bin fantasy. anywho, thanks.
dust, congrats on getting your article on relevant. thats very cool. can i say, "i'm proud of you" without sounding condescending or gay?? i don't know...but i am dude. as far as what you had to say, thanks for your honesty and vulnerablilty. i can truthfully say...despite the 'asked to resign' part (which would probably be warranted if it did occur)...i am experiencing everything you wrote about. it seems so pathetic, or maybe overdramatic, to feel like this at 25, but...i don't know. anyhoo, thanks for sharing your heart, man.
bill
thanks for the article. i was grateful that you were able to connect with so many people (including myself). i guess henri was right when he said "that which is most personal is most universal."
peace.
Dustin,
Nice article. It got me right in the chest. (and made my nipples tingle) No really you articulated well a phenomenon that is really happening in our culture. It happened to me at around 25 and I am just now starting to come out of it. I turned 30 last Sept. I think that I just expected too much from life. I guess I thought there would be more meaning and fulfillment as I got older and wiser. The opposite has proven to be true. That sounds a little depressing but really its just freeing.
Dustin,
I don't know you, but I googled your name after reading the article on relevant. I have been waiting a long time to read that someone else is there too.
I just quit a full time ministry job in June, that I had been at for 5 years. I just got too good at it, while losing the passion that brought me there. I felt really famous, and like I had a lot of responsibilities, but I didn't feel like I was in my 20's any more.
I'm trying to figure out all of that right now, learning who I am and even thinking about who I want to be, and it's dang hard. One thing you are going to miss is the affirmation that comes with the job. Starting from scratch is so weird, but it is an adventure. I don't think you will regret this time of your life. My word of advise is to take it one day at a time, and just ask God to be glorified in whatever happens that day. Cause chances are you aren't going to be, He might as well.
For me I had to move to hawaii, to make some room for adventure. Thanks for getting those thoughts out there. Here's to the freedom...
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