To just give up and go

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Name change for obvious reasons.

But I’m seriously thinking of just giving up my v.senior (absolutely not a humble brag and you’ll see why) corporate job and just leaving.

So fed up with the bloody rat race, it’s just stakeholder management after politics and just more and more pressure to make absurd amounts of money for a company who would replace me if I suddenly dropped off the face of the earth. Feel so suffocated by it all. It’s just endless.

I love my friends and family (no DCs) and have recently been looking at a total life change. Sell up what I have (which isn’t loads but is enough to start again) and just moving somewhere abroad, maybe Thailand, where I could actually just live life rather than be under this mad expectation of success all
the time!

If you are in a senior positon at work - I am sure you can weigh this up yourself and won't benefit massively from the min wagers etc on here chiming in with whatever inspirational quotes they read on Insta today

How dare minimum wagers post on Mumsnet? They've probably used all their benefits buying laptops and phones, stealing food from the mouths of their children so they can Insta quote. That non-minimum wage advice there is so much more helpful.

Honestly, get a life coach. You would be bored If you gave up work. You need a better plan than just ditching your job and running away.

Research burn out. You do, definitely, sound burned out. Try and get some time off work, if a sabbatical is a possibility then take it, a few months with no income while you refocus and get your energy back is a good idea.

Boring but consider saving up more first? Wait a bit longer because money might not seem that important whilst you have it but it is when you don’t have a job and are living off savings!

@tornadosequins don’t know huge amounts about day to day life in Thailand but I have lived in Asia before, so understand some of the cultural nuance of living in a different country, filing taxes, finding a place to live etc. and how to adapt to different cultures. Speak a few Asian languages at an intermediate level and at a low written level. Not Thai specifically but think I could learn given time and putting effort in.

@CustardyCreams thank you, really good advice :)

How do you go about finding a good life coach, have googled but mostly MLMs etc came up - thank you for your advice

Op I replied upthread but if I was in your amazing position I would quit, get something to pay my minimal bills and retrain in something I really cared about doing. In my case I'd love to be a therapist or foster or something.

As someone from a country that is a magnet for Westerners looking to "get away from it all" (not Thailand)...all you'd be doing is swapping one set of problems for another. People come and see the idyllic countryside, beaches, cheap alcohol, "anything goes" attitude etc and think life here must be a permanent holiday/gap year. They snap up cheap properties in locations that look nice at first glance, without knowing much about the region and then find out there's a reason why it's cheap...poor infrastructure, high unemployment and poverty, poor healthcare, cumbersome bureaucracy, corruption, not much to do outside of the tourist season etc.

To get a better standard of living you'd need to be in one of the big cities, ideally the capital, which is very Westernised nowadays and isn't much cheaper than the UK. And people have many of the same problems that you mention (rat race isn't confined to the West), plus all the usual problems associated with living in a poorer/less organised country. Lots of "expats" stay for a little while and then realise they actually had it good back home.

I'm not saying don't move to another country...but do it because you genuinely love the country and its culture, with the full knowledge of what living there entails, rather than as a knee jerk reaction, or because you think it will be an idyllic life in the sun.