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My personality is generally pretty risk-averse...which was okay when I was younger, but I'm 46 now. I've worked in a "pays well but the work doesn't excite me" environment for the last 20 years.
My advice as a guy ten years older than you is this: I wish that I'd have done something interesting rather than "comfortable" all those years ago. I had my excuses (young family, sole income, blah, blah, blah). I'm good at what I do and my office considers me to be an essential employee...and I don't give a shit about it. I don't feel like I'm contributing anything of value. It's like Useless Talent #67, only they pay me enough for it to for it to not feel completely useless.
Look, I'm not a "men are defined by what they do professionally" kind of guy...but fuck, we sort of are. We can't help it. You spend 50 hours a week doing anything, and it sort of becomes a default lens through which you view the world.
Do the cool thing. Do the sexy thing. Do the thing that makes you want to brag to people at parties about what you do.
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